Workshop program -- WWW5, 6 May 1996

Status: 1/5/96
Call for papers

Programming the Web - a search for APIs

Report, Papers, Participants, Registration, Your way, Facilities, Announcements/Changes

Morning 9.00-12.30

9.00-9.15 Opening

Keynote speech

9.15-10.00 - Luca Cardelli - What is the Web's Model of Computation?

10.00-10.15 Break

Round 1 - Reference libraries -- configuration and composition

10.15-10.45 Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, Libwww API
10.45-11.00 Robert Thau, API support for Delegating Control over Server Configuration

11.00-11.15 Break

Round 2 - Objects and abstractions

11.15-11.30 Bernard Lang & Francois Rouaix, The V6 Engine
11.30-11.45 Bill Janssen & Mike Spreitzer, A Distributed-Object-Oriented World Wide Web
11.45-12.00 Richard Connor, HIPPO: High-level Internet Programming with Persistent Objects

12.00-12.10 Break

Discussion 1 -- Requirements for APIs

12.10-12.30 Discussion

12.30-14.30 Lunch


Afternoon 14.30-18.00

Round 3 - Virtual APIs and Users

14.30-14.50 I.J.Palmer, N.Chilton & R.A.Earnshaw, Web Programming Environments: Towards a Virtual API
14.50-15.00 Leslie L. Daigle & Sandro Mazzucato, Building Specialized Web Services -- Where to Put the API
15.00-15.10 Joakim Eriksson, Niclas Finne & Sverker Janson, Surfing the market and making sense of the web: Interfacing the web to an open agent-based market infrastructure
15.10-15.20 Pierre Wellner, Requirements for Resellable Service APIs
15.20-15.30 Thomas Koch, MetaWeb -- a general purpose interface to shared interactive applications in the World-Wide Web
15.30-15.40 Daniel Mavrakis, VEMMI: a new On-line Client/Server Multimedia Protocol for the Internet
15.40-15.50 Mark Brown, FastCGI: A High-Performance Gateway Interface

15.50-16.15 Break

Round 4 - Objects and more objects

16.15-16.30 Anselm Baird-Smith, Jigsaw, An Object-Oriented Web server
16.30-16.40 Anton Eliëns, Jacco van Ossenbruggen & Bastiaan Schönhage, The DejaVu framework -- a software architecture for Web components
16.40-16.50 Andy Wood, CAMEO: Supporting Observable APIs
16.50-17.00 Seshu Adunuthula & Mala Anand, Web Request Broker API

17.00-17.15 Break

Discussion 2 -- A catalogue of state of the art APIs

17.15-18.00 Discussion
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