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+<head>
+<title>JAWS Overview</title>
+</head>
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+<body>
+<h1>JAWS Overview</h1>
+
+<font size="+3" weight="b">
+<ol>
+<li>What is JAWS?
+    <font size="+0"><br>
+    JAWS is an application framework for the construction of
+    Web systems.
+    </font><p>
+
+  <font size="+2" weight="b">
+  <ol type=a>
+  <li>What is an <i>application framework</i>?
+      <font size="+0"><br>
+      On page 26 of [Gamma+95], a <i>framework</i> is defined as
+      <i>"a set of cooperating classes that make up a reusable design
+      for a specific class of software</i>."
+      </font><p>
+
+      <font size="+0">
+      An <i>application framework</i> can be defined as a collection of
+      cooperating frameworks that make up a reusable application
+      software architecture for a specific application domain.  An
+      application framework is an application skeleton which can be
+      customized by inheriting and instantiating from reuseable
+      components in the software frameworks that it provides. The
+      result is pre-fabricated design at the cost of reduced design
+      flexibility.
+      </font><p>
+
+  <li>What is a <i>Web system</i>?
+      <font size="+0"><br>
+      A Web system is defined as any combination of services that
+      are provided through the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW).
+      This includes file transfer services (HTTP, FTP), caching services,
+      e-commerce, <i>etc.</i>
+      </font><p>
+  </ol>
+  </font>
+
+<li>What classes are part of JAWS, and how do they cooperate?
+    <font size="+0"><br>
+    The JAWS framework is roughly organized as 4 sub-frameworks.
+    <ol>
+    <li> Events Framework
+    <li> Concurrency Framework
+    <li> Protocol Framework
+    <li> Caching Framework (still under development)
+    </ol><p>
+    </font><p>
+    <img alt="JAWS Components" src="images/jaws3_components.gif">
+    <p>
+
+  <font size="+2" weight="b">
+  <ol type=a>
+  <li> What is the JAWS Events Framework?
+       <font size="+0"><br>
+       The JAWS Events Framework is arguably the most complicated
+       sub-framework within JAWS.  It contains the most number of
+       interacting classes.
+       </font><p>
+  <li> What is the JAWS Concurrency Framework?
+       <font size="+0"><br>
+       </font><p>
+  <li> What is the JAWS Protocol Framework?
+       <font size="+0"><br>
+       </font><p>
+  <li> What is the JAWS Caching Framework?
+       <font size="+0"><br>
+       There is nothing to say about it, since it is not finished yet.
+       </font><p>
+  </ol>
+  </font>
+
+</ol>
+</font>
+
+
+<h1>References</h1>
+
+<dl compact>
+
+  <dt><p>[Gamma+95]</dt>
+  <dd><i>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software</i>,
+      by E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides, 1995,
+      Addison-Wesley.
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt><p>[PLoPD1]</dt>
+  <dd><i>Pattern Languages of Program Design</i>, edited by J. Coplien
+      and D. Schmidt, 1995, Addison-Wesley.
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt><p>[PLoPD2]</dt>
+  <dd><i>Pattern Languages of Program Design 2</i>, edited by
+      J. Vlissides, J. Coplien, and N. Kerth, 1996, Addison-Wesley.
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt><p>[PLoPD3]</dt>
+  <dd><i>Pattern Languages of Program Design 3</i>, edited by
+      R. Martin, D. Riehle, and F. Buschmann, 1998, Addison-Wesley.
+  </dd>
+
+  <dt><p>[PLoPD4]</dt>
+  <dd><i>Pattern Languages of Program Design 4</i>, Addison-Wesley.
+  </dd>
+
+</dl>
+
+</body>
+
+</html>