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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