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It's Not DOM, It's DirectDom


IBM technology brings client-side Web interaction to new, richer level

By David Rubinstein
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IBM believes its new, client-side DirectDom technology provides users with a richer means of communicating with Internet servers than what is currently available with HTML, JavaScript and other browser-level technologies based on marked-up text. But it's the potential for a broader applicability to server-side applications that has Big Blue's engineering team excited.

"This area is ripe for research," said Andrew Donoho, an IBM senior engineer who has worked on the DirectDom project. "There is a whole world of XML grammars, and each parses down to a DOM [Document Object Model] tree. DirectDom is a start to how we peel that box open" and apply DOM technology to server-to-server and server-to-client communication.

JAVA-BASED
Donoho said DirectDom was conceived about a year ago by IBM's engineering team, based on the emergence of Web browsers as effective mechanisms for deploying applications. DOM has been a W3C-endorsed Level 1 specification since October 1998, but IBM has added its own twist by basing it on Java.

"We found this nugget of gold on the floor of the standards body and we're running with it," Donoho said. "We're putting some muscle behind the W3C DOM. We're saying the APIs are good and need to be supported on many browsers." And by basing DirectDom on open standards, Donoho explained, it is impossible for any one vendor to unilaterally make changes, creating a more reliable platform.

DirectDom, according to Donoho, will allow Java developers to manipulate the DOM to build graphical user interfaces. They do so by writing packages called Weblets, which are Java client programs that use the client user interface facilities of a DOM-compatible browser or other DOM viewer (such as Adobe's Scalable Vector Graphics plug-in for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser) to render and control its interface via the W3C's DOM standards and HTML 4.0. These DOM user interface facilities, according to IBM, include widgets, layout, accessibility, sound and printing functions, meaning that the Weblet run-time library can be used to build Java programs that run inside a browser Web page, or as stand-alone applications.



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