Microsoft's .NET Framework, and JAVA platforms, are based in a just-in-time compilation philosophy. Software developed using these technologies is executed in a hardware independent framework, which provides a full object-oriented
environment, and in some cases allows the interaction
of several…

The paper describes a framework for the implementation of an elearning system based on the Semantic Web, using software agents and Java Web Services. Hopefully we have elucidated the enormous potential of making web content machine-understandable. One of the killer…

Object-oriented frameworks are, perhaps, the most important reuse technology today available. This is so, because they enable the reuse of both code and design. However, the effective use of frameworks to instantiate new applications represents one of the most limiting…