Impacts of download size to client-server applications being migrated to the Internet

Companies are moving their distributed desktop applications to the Web to take advantage of its huge user based and easy accessibility. Many focus on the issue of portability, and choose platform independent languages, such as Java to implement their applications. While the issue of Java to implement their applications. While the issue of portability is important, there are other problems and issues in migrating a distributed object application to the Web. In this paper, we use our experience of migrating a Javal|CORBA desktop application to the Web to present the problems of download size, browser security, incompatibility of virtual machines and Web-based protocol. In particular, we point out the importance of download size and how it can affect the distribution of software components within the architecture of a web application