This presentation reviews efforts to add more structure to the Web such as XML, Document Object Model, PICS, and Resource Description Framework. The presentation also discusses the key issue of converging these technologies, and object efforts like IDL and Java, to provide better structuring primitives for the Web, and avoid a situation where each ommunity invents its own representations and services. There is a need to further integrate web and object technology. OMA provides a useful architecture. A number of efforts have tried to amplify this integration.
Object technology is a convenient language for extending the web.
Fundamental components of any object model requires data structures that can represent state and a means of associating behavior. Java provides one means for doing all this. W3C is doing relevant work. XML is an SGML subset. Lots of end user interest.