Space Telescope
European Coordinating Facility
Users' Committee Meeting
10-11 December 1996
Java-based Solutions
- Programming language incompatibilities do not arise because it
is not necessary to re-compile
the software at the target site.
- Data incompatibility is overcome since the Web creates a de-facto standard
- Installation problems are obviated: the software is ready to execute as soon
as it arrives across
the net.
- On line help and documentation can seamlessly be provided through the
hypertext capabilities.
of the Web
- html provides the possibility to easily create user interfaces. In addition,
the Web browsers
provide a good UIF paradigm.
- Platform incompatibility. Any platform which supports a Java capable browser becomes
usable.
- Remote maintenance. Any first link and any "reload" forces a transfer of the
current, i.e. most
recent version of the Web page plus the Java code.
R. Albrecht