TCS has developed a series of applications for different clients which have been displayed at the Java Village. These software applications are meant for webcasting, E-Commerce, international relay chat and distance learning.An open source code originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Java creates an environment on any computer to run with its complete functionality. Thus developers of applications can create completely functional applications that can be accessed anywhere in the world off the Internet by users who are actually working on any kind of computer.

Webcasting application is an architecture that pushes user-specific customised data to the user and has the ability to deliver information on demand according to preset definitions. It is a 100 per cent pure Java product that has a three-tier architecture of database-application server and the client. It uses amulti-threaded server that auto-updates its database and handles multiple clients.

"The economics of the web is changing. Every single transaction that will happen is going to materialise through the internet in the future," said Ravi N Marwaha, Tata IBM CEO and MD, during his interesting presentation on emerging technology and connected tomorrow at IT World here on Wednesday.With revolutionary changes taking place in technology, the IT industry is on its way to redefine life without computers as cyber homes will be running with the help of motors, he observed.

Not only in the commerce, internet had also made its presence felt in the educational institutions. "Not less that 30 per cent of the MBAs from the USA and Canada are educated through the Net today," Marwaha pointed out.Through the market research, IBM had figured out that there was an unusual rise in the sales of products when they went on the Net. "It is the use of internet which enables the product to move to such heights," he added. "At thecurrent pace, we may end up with a paperless office and society."In next few years, the industry will come to the point of consolidation to end up with mega servers, he observed.

Internet, which has had a phenomenal growth in last five years, is expected to grow to 100 million computers by the end of the century, added Marwaha.