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W3Objects: Bringing Object-Oriented Technology to the Web

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Santosh ShrivastavaAuthors Info & Claims

WWW4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

Pages 89 - 105

https://doi.org/10.1145/3592626.3592633

Published: 11 December 1995 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we discuss some of the problems of the current Web and show how the introduction of object-orientation provides flexible and extensible solutions. Web resources become encapsulated as objects, with well-defined interfaces through which all interactions occur. The interfaces and their implementations can be inherited by builders of objects, and methods (operations) can be redefined to better suit the object. New characteristics, such as concurrency control and persistence, can be obtained by inheriting from suitable base classes, without necessarily requiring any changes to users of these resources. We describe the W3Object model which we have developed based upon these ideas, and show, through a prototype implementation, how we have used the model to address the problems of referential integrity and transparent object (resource) migration. We also give indications of future work.

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WWW4: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on World Wide Web

December 1995

737 pages

ISBN:1565921690

DOI:10.1145/3592626

Conference Chairs:
Albert Vezza
MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science
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Ira Goldstein
OSF-Research Institute
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Tim Berners-Lee
MIT-Laboratory for Computer Science

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Published: 11 December 1995

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