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Foil 14 WebFlow : Cons(9)

From Gateway: A High Level Interface to High performance Commodity Metacomputing PhD Proposal NPAC -- Sept 23 1999. by Erol Akarsu


Although the implementation of the WebFlow proved to be very successful, we are not satisfied with this to the large extend custom solution
Middle tier is based on a custom protocol implemented directly on top of URL and socket based interactions
Not scalable (Uses multi-threading to support concurrency of user modules in middle-tier)
Difficult to implement security features, fault tolerance, monitoring
Impossible to take advantage of new technologies
There is no flexibility to compose application
Supports only data-flow model
There is no persistent model( like with XML and java serialization)
There is no way to copy and paste any user module running in a application



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