Java and the emerging technology -- Transcopyright: A simple legal arrangement for sharing, re-use, and republication of copyrighted material on the net -- Building secure and reliable network applications -- HORB: Distributed execution of Java programs -- Performance of the messengers autonomous-objects-based system -- Engineering component-based systems with distributed object technology -- Local Class Name Space Facility for Worldwide Object-Oriented Distributed Systems Environment -- A component-oriented architecture to design multimedia services on a distributed platform -- Teamwork via team plans in intelligent autonomous agent systems -- WISH: A web information sharing system accessible via the WWW -- Organic programming for cooperative computation -- Emerging groupware successes in major corporations: Studies of adoption and adaptation -- An approach toward fits evaluation between organizational culture and groupware -- A realization of a reflection of personal information on distributed brainstorming environment -- A hybrid approach to multimedia database systems through integration of semantics and media-based search -- The universal B-tree for multidimensional indexing: General concepts -- Spatial views and LOD-based access control in VRML-object databases -- Metacomputing and data-intensive applications -- Architectural issues of database systems in advanced computer networks -- Aglets: Programming mobile agents in Java -- WWW cache management and its international deployment -- VINES: Distributed algorithms for a web-based distributed network management system -- An algorithm for cost-delay balanced trees and its application to wide area network multicast -- Server initiated delivery of multimedia information -- Dynamic loadable object support for real-time mach kernels -- A micro-kernel for isochronous video-data transfer -- Metaspaces and mobile computing: Promises and challenges -- Position locking: Handling location dependent queries in mobile computing environment -- Robust host mobility supports for adaptive mobile applications -- Access control for inter-organizational computer network environment -- The world wide shell based on the object-stacking model -- DeleGate: A general purpose application level gateway.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997. The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distributed applications, Internet and protocols, distributed system platforms, mobile computing, and application gateways.