Evolution of WWW to support new integrated services

摘要

The universality of Internet has set new standards in information systems, stimulating an evolution towards the "Global Informatio Society". However, Internet anarachy and a lack of structure sometimes leads to unacceptable delays in information retrieval, when search engines and navigators respond with hundreds of outdated hyperlinks. Meanwhile, new commercial applications offered in a multiprovider environment, could be widely available if requirements such as opernness, on-line reliable information, user customisation and billing are fulfilled. In this paper, an open architecture able to ovetake Internet anarchy and support integrated services is described. An integrated service provision scenario is described that uses TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) computational objects in regular WWW browsing. A distributed object-oriented realisation of this architecture is subsequerntly considered, focusing on a combination of the WWW with the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).