Abstract

There seems to be a trend towards replacing monolithic general-purpose Web browsers by more finely-tuned Web applications enhanced with user-specific functionality, such as for example applets that allow for user-interaction or the display of dynamic information.

This raises the issue of what support should be provided for developing such applications. This workshop intents to address these issues. Topics include:

  • Web programming languages
  • components for developing Web applications
  • software libraries -- HTML/HTTP support
  • (object) composition mechanisms -- CORBA, OLE, ...
  • additional communication protocols -- broadcasting, ToolTalk, ...
  • agents -- mobile code, ...
To focus the discussion, we state that "the language wars are over, the next war will be an API war, or rather several of them." In other words, as a result of the workshop, we like to see (proposals for) high-level support for Web-integrated applications.

We like the workshop to result in

  • the definition of requirements for high-level APIs and frameworks for Web programming
  • the characterization of suitable components for Web-aware applications,
  • an overview of existing APIs for the Web

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