The World Wide Web-whether Internet, intranet, or extranet-has become
a key element of post-industrial society. The author contends that the
convergence of Web and OO technologies will provide the ability to us
e new or legacy code on distant machines to build distributed, three-t
ier client-server applications. These applications will transcend conv
entional boundaries of platform, organizational function, enterprise,
industry, and geography to leverage the power of distributed computing
.