The Java language has revolutionized the way we program applications for the Internet. Two great ideas make this language so promising:
• Applications written using Java run on multiple different platforms.
• Automatic memory management or garbage collection (GC) comes as a great relief for developers.
Other than these two issues, most of the remaining Java features can be implemented using the majority of other languages. Since its first public release in 1995, the Java language has been maturing and consolidating its position in the market as an increasing number of organizations realize its built-in strengths.
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What Is Silverlight?
Silverlight is a new Web presentation technology that is created to run on a variety of platforms. It enables the creation of rich, visually stunning and interactive experiences that can run everywhere: within browsers and on multiple devices and desktop operating systems (such as the Apple Macintosh). In consistency with WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), the presentation technology in Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (the Windows programming infrastructure), XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) is the foundation of the Silverlight presentation capability.
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There’s a new trend in wireless telecommunications, Internet: Internet connectivity via handheld devices. More people are buying wireless handheld devices such as cellular phones, pagers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and they demand access to onlineresources at any timefromany location. Over thepast few years a tremendous number of wireless devices different in their characteristics appeared on market. Developments of web application for these devices become challenging experience due to the following reasons [1]:
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Reliable computer systems used in the telecommunication industry, in cars and automated factories (process control) are often implemented as special purpose systems which are vendor-specific, expensive, hard to maintain and difficult to upgrade. Often, those systems apply proprietary techniques to achieve security and predictable timing behavior, even in case of faults. With the need of integrating multiple of those control systems into a bigger whole, requirements arise to open up proprietary systems for standard (non real-time) distributed computing technology.
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A Web service is a network of coordinated applications in the backend behind an http-governed Web server. The Web server is addressed by http-clients across the Internet. ASP.NET is one example for the coordination technology. However, the security analysis holds for Web services in general, not only for ASP.NET.
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