In late 2000, NOLA Computer Services, Inc. embarked on its first XP project with two developers and a project manager/ customer. The goal was to develop a Web-based J2EE application for commercial release. Over the next eighteen months, the project would grow to six developers and consist of over 650 Java classes, 80 Java Server Pages and 35 database tables. Our initial process was based on Ext...

There is enough retrospective analyses and harangue pertaining to the field of women's studies that exists to raise the issue of whether or not this academic discipline is in its twilight. Perhaps the essential question involved is to what extent is women's studies still tenable as an institutionalized domain of academic study and what are the existing intellectual premises of the discipline. F...

Modularity is a key feature at design, programming, proving, testing, and maintenance time, as well as a must for reusability. Most languages and systems provide built-in facilities for encapsulation, importation or parameterization. Nevertheless there exists also languages, like HTML, with poor support for modularization. A natural idea is therefore to provide generic modularization primitives...

When editing Web pages, a user may desire to transform the documents as freely as with a word processor. But because Web documents must conform to a rigorous structure (defined by the HTML DTD), every transformation is not allowed and the editing system must perform some work to obtain valid HTML documents. This paper presents a solution to the problem of transforming the document structure in ...

The WWW has become a major publishing medium. To integrate synchronized multimedia in this environment in a seamless way we propose temporal extensions to HTML and an execution architecture to support these extensions. We have created a prototype using Java and adapted it to make it run in a standard browser.