How about some Library Applets ?

[Charles Blair]

"Allan Bell" <BELL at library.uta.edu> writes:

> Using HotSIBIL as a guide, it is really not a very large step to
> imagine a Z39.50 applet.  Maybe it would use a gateway or client
> that has already been or is being developed, but it probably could
> be done as an applet.  If someone wrote an applet that could accept
> configurations for attibutes and structures for multiple databases
> or OPACs, we would have a very compelling product indeed.

It would seem to be an alternative to forms-based "programming" for
the more sophisticated applications that require it, perhaps
eventually superseding the nascent forms-based WWW/Z39.50 gateway
clients (as Java-enabled desktops gradually become ubiquitous).