Channel communication (continued)

Library supports bi-directional communication of data on a channel.

• Pair of locally created channel ends can be connected, creating a local channel.
• A spawn function starts another Java instance on a remote processor, and creates an initial channel between parent and child.
• Channel ends can be communicated over channels, on similar footing to data
• Functionality similar to ``merge'' in Fortran-M available.
• Web applets downloaded from a common server may communicate over a channel, with server transparently through-routing messages (unimplemented).