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Objectifying the Web the "light" way: an RDF-based framework for the description of Web objects and services
(Pasqualino Assini, The Data Archive - University of Essex)
Although the advantages of object-oriented (OO) programming are well-known none among the main distributed OO middlewares (DCOM,CORBA and Java RMI) has been widely adopted for the developing of Internet applications. Developers seems to perceive these approaches as over-complex (COM and CORBA), proprietary (COM and RMI), and incompatible with current WWW development practices. Recognizing these difficulties more WWW-friendly proposals are starting to appear (e.g., XML-RPC , SOAP). The paper describes a 'light' approach to objectifying the WWW that provides most of the advantages of object-orientation while mantaining full compatibility with the existing WWW infrastructure and requiring only modest changes to existing applications to allow them to partecipate to the Object Web.
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