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Foil 37 NPAC Concepts for FMS: Pragmatic Object Web

From FMS: Forces Modeling and simulation and HPCC JSU HPC Summer Institute for Undergraduates, Jackson MS -- June 15 1998. by Wojtek Furmanski
3-(or more)-tier architecture - Web browser front-ends, legacy (e.g. databases, HPC modules) backends; fat (1+tier) middleware
Alternative / competing Middleware models:
  • Java - single language solution by Sun
  • CORBA - all languages solution by OMG
  • COM - multi-language solution by Microsoft
  • WOM - emergent solution by the Web Consortium
POW attempts at integrating various models in terms of multi-protocol middleware servers (JWORB)

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