This Week's Technologies ADK for Win 3.1 One of our most popular technologies has just been updated. Produce Java applications and applets in your Windows 3.1 environment and run them over any hardware platform or operating system. ShakingHands ShakingHands is a new take on real-time, online collaborative application architectures. Its Java-based "collaboratory server" manages applets and documents in a single Web location, providing users real-time access to presentations and white board discussions. Isis Time is the defining element of multimedia documents: get it wrong and your creation becomes jibberish. Isis is Java-based multimedia authoring tool that automatically synchronizes multimedia data, such as sound and images, using a temporal and spatial framework. It even shrinks or stretches them to fit user-defined timing. | Fresh Perspectives Java and the Network Centric Future Java's applet-on-demand capability will revolutionize users' online experience--transforming the very notion of "personal computing." IBM researchers David Kaminsky and Jim Gray begin exploring this transformation and its implications for the software achitecture of Internet and intranet clients. (First in a series) Adding Time to the Internet Equation IBM researcher Michelle Kim explains why time is the fourth-dimension of the Internet experience and a critical design element for Web applications. |