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Foil 2 WebFlow/Gateway/Tango/JWORB Topics

From Full Description of WebFlow and Friends for Education and Science Portals NCSA Portal/Metadata Meeting -- October 22-23 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Tom Haupt


3-Tier Architecture with two well defined API's in XML
  • Grid and Computing Portal (WebFlow) API
Portals Built and in Progress
  • Alliance, Education, DoD, CRPC, Earthquake, DMSO, "Generic"
Features of WebFlow/Gateway
  • Component/Containers(EJB's JWORB and CORBA)
  • Security (Kerberos and Secure CORBA)
  • Events (CORBA style and link to Tango Interactive)
  • Application Composition/Integration
General Issues and Special Services
  • Commercial Enterprise (iPlanet etc.) and Education (Blackboard, WebCT) portal building tools
  • Collaboration Architecture and Demonstration from Tango Interactive with Biology Workbench(Shared Portal on the Web)
  • Universal Access and linking with PalmTops (MicroPortal)



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