Chapter 12

Web Applications

The World Wide Web is the largest distributed application in the world. Currently, however, nonstandardized and inflexible HTML interfaces are the main technique used to access the wealth of components—Web sites—out there. Although these interfaces are relatively easy to use for humans, they are not suitable for building complex applications. One of the current efforts to improve this situation are so-called Web services. Web services are aimed at establishing a uniform infrastructure for the description and registration of Web-based services and for providing access to these components.

Web applications with Java

However, the big challenge in the development of a Web application is still the building and integration ...

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