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Foil 4 Seamless Access

From Tutorial on Java for Middle tier in Computing Portals Tutorials at ACM Java Grande Meeting -- June 14 99. by Tom Haupt
Create an illusion that all resources needed to complete the user tasks are available locally.
In particular, an authorized user can allocate the resources she needs without explicit login to the host controlling the resources.
An analogy: NSF mounted disk or a network printer.

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