April 05
Prof. Ismael H. F. Santos
- ismael@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
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Increased demand for Internet applications
nTo take advantage of opportunities presented
by the Internet,
businesses are continuously seeking new and innovative ways and means for offering their
services via the
Internet.
nThis created a huge demand for software
designers with skills
to create new Internet-enabled applications or migrate existing/legacy applications on the
Internet platform.
nObject-oriented Java technologies—Sockets,
threads, RMI,
clustering, Web services-- have emerged as leading solutions for creating portable, efficient,
and maintainable large
and complex Internet applications.