Document Type
Working Paper
Date
1997
Keywords
Webflow, visual programming, Java, coarse grain distributed computing
Language
English
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Description/Abstract
We present here the recent work at NPAC aimed at developing WebFlow---a general purpose Web based visual interactive programming environment for coarse grain distributed computing. We follow the 3-tier architecture with the central control and integration WebVM layer in tier-2, interacting with the visual graph editor applets in tier-1 (front-end) and the legacy systems in tier-3. WebVM is given by a mesh of Java Web servers such as Jeeves from JavaSoft or Jigsaw from MIT/W3C. All system control structures are implemented as URL-addressable servlets which enable Web browser-based authoring, monitoring, publication, documentation and software distribution tools for distributed computing. We view WebFlow/WEbVM as a promising programming paradigm and coordination model for the exploding volume of Web/Java software, and we illustrate it in a set of ongoing application development activities.
Recommended Citation
Bhatia, Dimple; Burzevski, Vanco; Camuseva, Maja; and Fox, Geoffrey C., "WebFlow - A Visual Programming Paradigm for Web/Java Based Coarse Grain Distributed Computing" (1997). Northeast Parallel Architecture Center. 4.
https://surface.syr.edu/npac/4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional Information
Presented at Workshop on Java for Computational Science and Engineering Workshop, Syracuse University, December 1996