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Foil 18 Issues in Use of Web Servers as a Compute Net - I

From Emerging Network(Web) Technologies for Scientific Computing CRPC NSF Review -- August 16 1996 . by Geoffrey C. Fox
Secs 93
In "WebWindows" Approach one naturally gets a Web Server and Client on every node
  • Automatic in JavaOS (NT/UNIX "replacement")
  • Web is "server-server" and not a "client-server" architecture
Several emerging technologies
  • Jigsaw (30,000 line Java Server from MIT)
  • Habanero and other Java Collaboration technologies
  • JRI (Java Runtime Interface) from Netscape hides changes in Java World
  • Java IDL links to Corba and JDBC to (all) databases
  • Java RMI -- Remote Method Invocation and Object Serialization are distributed computing technologies from JavaSoft
  • JavaBeans is coarse grain object (potential basic dataflow module in distributed/parallel computing supporting standardized input/output) interoperable with Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, OpenDoc, OLE, CORBA etc.

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