In this three-part series, Bill Venners compares the traditional approach to defining client/server interaction, using protocols and documents, with Jini's strategy of using objects and interfaces.

TEXTBOX: TEXTBOX_HEAD: Using objects versus documents for server-client interaction: Read the whole series! ... Java class files do not inherently fly across networks more slowly than HTML files.

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