Philippe AMELINE wrote:
> Hi,
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> What do the "light client" experts think of Open Edge :
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Since my group is heavily invested in light client development technology,
I will comment, even though I wouldn't call myself an expert.
What Intel is doing is putting a commercial marketing label
on an existing technology which Intel is working with the
IETF to standardize, content cacheing. The leader in this
field is Akamai. And indeed, Akamai has submitted their
protocol called iCAP to the IETF OPES group. More info at
http://www.ietf-opes.org/ietf-docs.htm
So in general this is primarily aimed at speeding content
delivery by cacheing content around the edges of a network.
With the advent of personalization, or content
specificially gated or targetted to identified individuals,
the protocol and servers must get more sophisticated. This
is what OPES (and Intel) are up to.
Interactive applications is what we write, and while one can
argue we ultimately just delivery content, that content
never really exists until a UI interaction causes some code
to execute and create the content 'on the fly' so to speak.
Thus, content cacheing technologies can't really help us
out much. What we need are code cacheing servers. But that
put's us right back into distributed object computing and as
soon as we go there, we are right back into CORBA, RMI,
DCOM, .NET, XML-SOAP, etc.....
