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DirectDom Developer Kit

A software development kit for creation of Java applications that manipulate the content of a Web page.

Date Posted: March 7, 2000

Overview

 

What is DirectDom Developer Kit?

This technology has been retired.

About the technology author(s)

Gary Cole
Bill Phillips
Dawn Herrington
Michael Bomar
Michael Allen
Andrew Donoho
Brian Burns
Adam Peller

Gary Cole, lead developer for the redesign of DirectDOM™ Development Kit for IE, is responsible for the Java portion of the code.



Bill Phillips is responsible for the C++ native engine portion of the code.



Dawn Herrington is responsible for putting together demonstrations that show various uses for Weblets.



Michael Bomar put together the installation and documentation.



Michael Allen.



Andrew Donoho, Web Theorist, has spent 16 years developing both software and hardware for personal computers. In that time, he has won several industry awards for both software and hardware. He believes that the Web platform is the future of client computing. To that end, he represents IBM to the World Wide Web Consortium for both Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). He also teaches Information Design at the University of Texas.



Brian Burns is currently working in the Emerging Java Technologies Group in Cambridge, MA. Brian holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1998, he joined Lotus and began working on both the application and browser versions of the eSuite Workplace. In September 1999, Brian joined IBM and started working on DirectDOM Developer Kit. He is responsible for putting together demonstrations that show various uses for Weblets.



Adam Peller is a member of the Emerging Java Technologies Group in Cambridge, MA. Adam received his BS in Computer Science from Columbia University. Since joining IBM in September, Adam has worked on DirectDOM Developer Kit, focusing on an implementation in the Mozilla browser. Before that, Adam was a Principal Software Engineer at Lotus Development where he specialized in browser technology for the eSuite Workplace team. He participated in a joint development project, with JavaSoft, to integrate JavaScript and a level-0 DOM into the HotJava browser. He also participated in the development of Bean Scripting Framework (BSF), another alphaWorks technology.

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