This title provides readers with an in-depth understanding of Curl technologies and how to apply them to real world situations. Coverage includes: Curl language syntax; text formatting, scripting, OO programming and rich 3D graphics; support for emerging technologies, like SOAP, Web Services and Peer to Peer; incorporating Curl technologies into existing Web infrastructure; embedding Curl content within an HTML page; accessing databases on the server; and creating and packaging Curl applets for Web delivery. There is an accompanying website which has: source code and examples; links to Curl developer resources such as white papers and developer forums; and links to download the Surge Development Lab and Surge Plug-in.

Author Biography

Curl Corporation is a software technology company that enables the development and deployment of next-generation Web pages and applications by providing full application-level functionality and a substantially richer, more interactive Web experience for the user. Based in Cambridge, Mass., Curl was founded in February of 1998 to extend and commercialize the results of a three-year, $5 million, DARPA-funded research project conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. DARPA, recognizing the need for standards and new models for harnessing the power of the Web, provided a grant that established the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Curl project to develop the "next generation of communication and computation software." The founders of Curl Corporation were twelve members of the MIT community, with a technical team led by Stephen A. Ward, an internationally recognized computer scientist; Michael L. Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Timothy Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the W3C.