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Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt at NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting on October 22-23 99. Foils prepared October 24 99

3-Tier Architecture with two well defined API's in XML
  • Grid and Computing Portal (WebFlow) API
Portals Built and in Progress
  • Alliance, Education, DoD, CRPC, Earthquake, DMSO, "Generic"
Features of WebFlow/Gateway
  • Component/Containers(EJB's JWORB and CORBA)
  • Security (Kerberos and Secure CORBA)
  • Events (CORBA style and link to Tango Interactive)
  • Application Composition/Integration
General Issues and Special Services
  • Commercial Enterprise (iPlanet etc.) and Education (Blackboard, WebCT) portal building tools
  • Collaboration Architecture and Demonstration from Tango Interactive with Biology Workbench(Shared Portal on the Web)
  • Universal Access and linking with PalmTops (MicroPortal)


Table of Contents for Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals


001 WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals
002 WebFlow/Gateway/Tango/JWORB Topics
003 Basic Architecture and  Inter Relationships
004 WebFlow 3-Tier Architecture
005 Hierarchy of Portals and Their Technology
006 WebFlow Computing and Component Model
007 PPT Slide
008 PSE Layered User View (AT Team Dependent)
009 PPT Slide
010 WebFlow Component Model
011 PPT Slide
012 WebFlow and Tango Events
013 WebFlow Events (1)
014 WebFlow Events (2)
015 WebFlow Events (3):  How do they work?
016 WebFlow Events (4)
017 Shared Event Collaboration Framework
018 Each Collaborating Client Receives Events
019 XML Shared Web Page Architecture
020 Shared Form Illustrated by Shared Access to NCSA Biology Workbench
     showing how general server  objects can be shared from web 
    interface
021 WebFlow Server Structure including Security
022 WebFlow Server
023 Distributed Middleware
024 Security Model
025 Authentication
026 PPT Slide
027 WebFlow Server configuration tools
028 WebFlow Applications
029 Simple Web Portal (submit a single job)
030 Example Application Descriptor (with selected application, host 
    and  i/o files)
031 Wrapping Existing Applications
032 WebFlow on Globus -- LMS at CEWES
033 Example of a custom Web User Interface Land Management System
034 NCSA Quantum Simulations: Build Application from Components
035 Example QS Task Descriptor
036 WebFlow File Service
037 Example IDL definition for  File Browser Service
038 PPT Slide
039 PPT Slide
040 PPT Slide
041 PPT Slide
042 Gateway: Problem Solving Environment
043 Gateway (2)
044 CRPC project with Texas (Mary Wheeler): Functionality
045 CRPC project: implementation


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