Leon Shklar is a professor in the computer science

Computer science

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 department at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

, where he teaches a senior level course in advanced web application development

Web application development

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. He is also the co-author (with Rich Rosen

Rich Rosen

Rich Rosen is a software developer and an author on the subject of web development, who gained notoriety as an early high-volume contributor to Usenet newsgroups.-Early life and education:...

) of the popular textbook Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols, and Practices. He is currently the head of technology at Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

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 Media. Formerly, he was the director of software development at Dow Jones.

Shklar was one of the people at Bell Communications Research responsible for InfoHarness, one of the earliest (1995) metadata

Metadata

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-driven web application systems. He also led the team that developed Metaphoria, one of the first commercially available Java

Java (programming language)

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-based server-side web application frameworks. Shklar has served on the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium

World Wide Web Consortium

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 (W3C) and was actively involved in the development of the RDF

Resource Description Framework

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 standard.

Publications

• Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices, Leon Shklar, Richard Rosen
  Rich Rosen
  Rich Rosen is a software developer and an author on the subject of web development, who gained notoriety as an early high-volume contributor to Usenet newsgroups.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 2003, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-48656-6.
• Real World Semantic Web Applications - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vipul Kashyap and Leon Shklar (eds.), [2002], Ios Press, ISBN 1-586-03306-9.

External links

• Leon Shklar's web site at Rutgers University
  Rutgers University
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
  
  
• Web site for Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols & Practices
• InfoHarness paper at ACM
  Association for Computing Machinery
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• Metaphoria