- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 14:01:46 -0500
- To: James Whitescarver <jim@eies.njit.edu>
- Cc: holtrf@destinyusa.com, www-talk@w3.org
In message <199511221858.NAA03073@eies.njit.edu>, James Whitescarver writes: >>Really? That's interesting. I certainly think that HTTP or HTTP++ >>will be a major part, and it may become the future, but I'm not >>convinced that it's the best or most desirable Future of The Web, > >The dream you discribe is what I'm calling HTTP++, where servers >and clients are replaced by objects that receive messages and return results. >HTTP may form the underlying transport, but certainly HTTP+CGI will be the >stone age compared to the future WWW frameworks that will ultimately provide >the total connectivity of all objects that the WWW philosophy embraces. This has been one of the design issues from day one. A couple of us did a short brain dump on the subject recently: The Web as a Distributed Application Platform http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/DesignIssues/DistObjApps.html There will be much ado about this at WWW4. See: The Future of Object Technology in the WWW Submitted by Mark Madsen, Information Services Framework, APM Ltd http://www.ansa.co.uk/ANSA/ISF/www4panel.html Dan
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