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Foil 23 Next Steps in Visual Programming for Chaining and Aggregating Services -- WebFlow!!

From Problem Solving Environments from Simulation, Medicine and Defense using the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox, Wojtek Furmanski
New powerful Web'96 technologies from Netscape, JavaSoft, Oracle, NeXT etc. will result in a new generation of interactive services
A natural next step is to start Chaining (Integrating) such services to a distributed PSE by providing a server to server communication and dataflow support
However Web'96 becomes also increasingly complex with its competing and overlapping multi-lingual standards
  • HTML, CGI, Perl, Java, JavaScript, LiveWire, VRML, VRMLScript
Visual Programming for a multi-server Web (We call it WebVM) based dataflow (we call it WebFlow) is a natural next generation user-friendly programming environment
We view the area of distributed Web based computing for PSE as a promising niche for NPAC and academic R and D where we expect industry to continue their focus on client-server aspects of the Web where near term profits can be made

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