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Foil 39 How do I use Tango II?

From Technology Supercharging Knowledge: The Next Generation of Learning Communities 8th Annual Scholarship and Community Conference University of Houston (Hilton Hotel) -- October 7 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


If you have a client side program, then you need to know an API to it which allows one to get and set all the properties (or events which are change of properties)
Most elegant interface is a TangoBean which implements shared Javabeans
  • A Javabean is a Java applet/application which has well defined visual and programmatic interface to its properties -- "design rules"
In any case, you choose events to be shared; meaning of master/slave relationship (if any) and consequence of sharing on disparate machines
  • e.g. in shared physics simulation, one could share positions of particles or just start/stop commands
  • Then slower machines simulate less .....



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