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Foil 22 I.12: Dataflow Based Integration Technology

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
We conclude that the topological decomposition of Web applications in terms of functional modules connected by MIME communication channels offers a promising uniform classification and integration paradigm for distributed/collaboratory Web systems.
Such a dataflow framework offers the following attractive features:
  • a) language/protocol independent design
  • b) simple/minimal module API requires (just well defined I/O)
  • c) scalability (compute-webs become composite modules)
  • d) module mobility
  • e) compatibility with existing dataflow models such as AVS/Khoros on compute side and LotusNotes in Information arena.
  • f) maximal parallelism
  • g) intuitive design/authoring based on visual programming

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