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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


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

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