April 2004
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 21m
English
The development of NDC applications is by definition a team sport, in which competing players theoretically agree to a set of rules. Standards arise from the realization that sound foundations, accepted and used by all agents within the fitscape, enable the competition to produce increasingly more valuable output. NDC frameworks provide an important layer of sediment in the common ground of interoperability shared by competing implementations, even as they attempt to solve the problems inherent in a constantly evolving milieu.
Bill Joy, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, and until recently Chief Scientist for the firm, is credited with articulating Joy's law: Innovation occurs elsewhere. No matter who you ...
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