Web-based Computing

  • Three levels of capability

    • HTTP can be used as a first level exporter of computation (must be requested by an active client)

    • Next up will be "remote method invocation" (RMI) mechanisms to abstract away explicit I/O based communication

    • Then with secure instantiation service, you can have distributed application development and execution

Detailed Description:

"First, we need to get information off the server and run it locally. That's provided by today's web sites as HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol), and is the first-level exporter of computational capability of both programs and data. Data has been available in the past, but Java applets are new and special."