A comparison of multimedia application development platforms towards the object web
In this paper, a complete scenario for the provision of interactive multimedia services over the Internet is considered, exploiting emerging software methodologies that implement different aspects of what is called the object web. Initially, web-application design considerations over the years are presented, in parallel to the evolution of the World Wide Web. Then, the study focuses on a distributed multimedia application aiming to deliver, over the Internet, information on children's TV programs and co-productions. Two different object oriented implementation models are described, the HTTP/Microsoft's active server pages (ASP) approach and the Java/common object request broker architecture (CORBA) approach. Finally, experimental results comparing the two implementation models are presented and the advantages gained from the latter are highlighted.
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