Web applications

The explosive growth of the Web is perhaps the single most important event in the history of computing technology. What started as an information infrastructure is now turning into an infrastructure encompassing both information and applications, and is becoming the backbone for the commercial deployment of the Internet.

Web Applications

objects and the Web
Web application development -- tools and environments - DejaVU - Web applications with hush
software architectures for the Web

Additional keywords and phrases: Web Objects, XML, Java, CORBA, multimedia, software architecture

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In this chapter, we will explore how the Web affects (object-oriented) software development. First of all, we will discuss whether object orientation has any relevance for the Web and for the development of Web applications. We will look at some of the current trends and technologies, discuss the possible occurrence of the Object Web, and look at an example deploying Web technology to provide an infrastructure for distributed object computing. We will reflect on the computation model underlying the Web, to explore how to program the Web to suit our needs. We will also look at the phenomenon of intelligent agents on the Web, which may aid the user in retrieving the right information and perform his/her tasks in a more convenient way. We then present some of our early research on extending the Web with multimedia fuctionality, carried out in the DejaVU project at the Vrije Universiteit. Concluding this chapter, and the book, we will discuss the forces that play a role in defining a suitable software architecture for (object-oriented) Web applications.