Dmitri Tcherevik

Software platforms traditionally offered a publish/subscribe mechanism as one of the core platform services. With help from this mechanism, an application could raise events or express interest in events produced by other applications. The Internet and Web services are emerging a... (more)

It's banal but true. The network, or the Internet, has indeed become a computer. It's possible now to assemble an application from network-based components called Web services. The network serves as the platform, or "computer," for such an application. Granted, the new platform ... (more)