Internet

The Internet is how computers from different geographical areas are connected together. It is a concept rather than an entity. The concept is important and a revolution because it changed the way information is stored, distributed, and retrieved. It revolutionized the amount of information available, when it is available and to whom and the way it is retrieved. The quality and content of the information is another matter.

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Web Design

No matter how much useful information you put into a Web page, a visitor will only spend a few seconds scanning it before he decides whether to leave it or to stay.

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) provides the foundation for the Web and makes all Web things possible. HTML as we know it was created by Tim Berners-Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) during the early 1990s. Berners-Lee's work gathered many scattered pieces, put them into place as part of a whole, and created a glue that would keep them all together and allow them to run on any platform with any software.

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CGI

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard for interfacing external applications with information servers, such as HTTP or Web servers. A plain HTML document that the Web daemon retrieves is static, which means it exists in a constant state: a text file that doesn't change. A CGI program, on the other hand, is executed in real-time, so that it can output dynamic information.

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Java Technology

The Java 2 Platform provides robust end-to-end solutions for networked applications as well as a trusted standard for embedded applications. It includes three editions: J2EE, J2SE and J2ME.

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Web Services

Web services, in the general meaning of the term, are services offered via the Web. In a typical Web services scenario, a business application sends a request to a service at a given URL using the SOAP protocol over HTTP. The service receives the request, processes it, and returns a response.

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