Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
May 6-10, Paris, France
Workshops: Call For Participation
Programming the Web - a search for APIs
The workshop focusses on
concepts and requirements for high-level API
suitable for developing Web-aware applications.
An explicit goal of the workshop is to publish
state of the art references to existing APIs.
Invited speaker
Luca Cardelli, DEC Systems Research Center: -
What is the Web's Model of Computation?
Latest Information
The latest information concerning the workshop: position papers, attendees, detailled program, will be made available by the workshop chairman at the following URL:
Format:
Full-Day
Workshop Committee
Chairman:
Anton Eliëns (Chair)
eliens@cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/
Dept. of Math. and CS
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Co-chair:
David De Roure
dder@ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~dder/
Department of Electronics & Computer Science,
University of Southampton,
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
Simon Dobson
S.Dobson@rl.ac.uk
http://www.cis.rl.ac.uk/people/sd/contact.html
Computing and Information Systems
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
The committee is assisted by:
Jacco van Ossenbruggen (VU, Amsterdam)
jrvosse@cs.vu.nl
Bastiaan Schönhage (VU, Amsterdam)
bastiaan@cs.vu.nl
Abstract
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
Position papers
Position papers from 3-5 (HTML-2.0) pages addressing one of
the topics mentioned are welcomed.
Position papers proposing an API must include a
brief description of the API, its intended
application domain and preferably
an indication of practical experience.
eliens@cs.vu.nl, Anton Eliëns, Workshop Organizer
Last updated: April 14, 1996