A comparison of multimedia application development platforms towards the object web

In this paper, a complete scenario for the provision of interactive multimedia services over the Internet is considered, exploiting emerging software methodologies that implement different aspects of what is called the object web.Initially, web-application design considerations over the years are presented, in parallel to the evolution of the World Wide Web. Then, the study focuses on a distributed multimedia application aiming to deliver, over the Internet, information on children's TV programs and co-productions. Two different object oriented implementation models are described, the HTTP/Microsoft's active server pages (ASP) approach and the Java/common object request broker architecture (CORBA) approach. Finally, experimental results comparing the two implementation models are presented and the advantages gained from the latter are highlighted.