Modular Data Serialisation and Mobile Code
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Abstract:
Since its creation the World Wide Web has revolutionised how we work.
Academics have used it as a media to exchange research information,
businesses use it to access markets previously unavailable to them and a
growing percentage of society at large has been able to use it to access a
global database of information. In short it has forced a rethink of the concepts
of boundaries and limits.
The aim of the research outlined in this dissertation is to assess the possibility
of stretching the functionality of the web a little further, by developing
programming languages which exploit the availability of the web as a massive
data store. The objective is to use web documents, traditionally HTML
documents but in the future, XML documents, as a store of data values and
types for programming languages. Values created by programming languages
will be saved in available data space on the web. This will in turn lead to the
increased interaction between programs on the web which will be able to
exchange information in the form of a XML documents. Serialisation of
programming language functions and sections of code as well as values will
open the door to the development of mobile programming languages.
Processing of code can take place wherever sufficient resources are available
on the web, or can be moved to an area where the data required is more
easily accessible.
Vanilla, a component based programming language development tool will be
used to create prototypical programming languages that contain these
capabilities.
Author: O'Leary, Ciaran
Advisor:
Dobson, SimonQualification name:
Master of Science (M.Sc.)Collections
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