Basic HTML version of Foils prepared July 15 1998

Foil 3 Summary of NPAC's WebFlow

From Overview of NPAC's WebFlow and JWORB Tutorial: ITEA HPCC Conference Aberdeen Md. -- July 13 98. by Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski, Tom Haupt, Tom Pulikal
WebFlow - a visual programming environment for the Web with real-time dataflow graph authoring tools
3-tier multi-server system with Web browser / Java applet front-end, Java Web Server middleware and (Java) computational modules in the backend
Early prototype - pure Java system, controlled by servlet based Session, Module and Connection Managers
POW middleware will support all languages
Used to build both linked modules and as framework for "wrapping legacy codes" as "distributed scientific objects"

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