Programming the Web - a search for APIs

We have to impose requirements on APIs

Complaints

• lack of referential integrity

Observations

• dynamic quality of services
• complex interaction

Requirements

• uniformity, openness, flexibility, orthogonality, layered, platform-independent

Behavior

• reliable, configurable, monitoring, notification, triggering, thread-safe

Answers

• object-oriented, components, virtual APIs, callbacks, plug-ins

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