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 MIDDLEWARE Internet Middleware: ActiveWeb I nternet middleware continues to defy definition. We still don't know what's going to work best, but we know it needs to be more than simply an HTML client for existing middleware systems.
Honorable mentions NeXT Software's WebObjects Enterprise 3.0 and BEA Systems' BEA Jolt deserve credit as leading examples of other types
of Internet middleware. WebObjects lets an object-based metaphor be used to deliver dynamic HTML pages, while BEA Jolt integrates Java applets with BEA Systems' back-end transaction processing monitor.
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Active Software's ActiveWeb is the most impressive Internet-centric innovation we've seen this year. By successfully incorporating three distinct technologies--Object Request Brokers (ORBs), Java and an event-oriented publish-and-subscribe model--it does more than deliver Java applets or generate HTML on the fly. Using a model that emphasizes business events, ActiveWeb easily integrates database, legacy applications and other client/server systems via software adapters. But by r
outing these events through an information broker and delivering them to the user with a completely Java-based interface, ActiveWeb accommodates the diverse conditions of the Internet.
Updated April 24, 1997 |
