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Foil 34 Implementation Continued II

From Distributed Objects and Portals for Earthquake Science GEM Meeting NPAC -- June 24-25 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 For this example (running a physics program), we could use a specific machine as defined on previous foil (the Windows NT PC maryland) or a generic machine <run domain="any" machine="any" type="pc" os="nt" >
2 In this case, middle tier broker, would look in a database (XML file) to find what machines were available and either automatically or with user input choose one.
3 Both Software and Hardware are defined in XML
4 Note databases and an XML files are logically equivalent
5 JDBC can access either Oracle (Microsoft) database or XML ASCII file
6 More generally XML can be thought of as general object serialization
  • A database table is one type of object

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