Document Type

Technical Report

Department

Computer Science and Engineering

Publication Date

1998-01-01

Filename

WUCS-98-18.PDF

Technical Report Number

WUCS-98-18

Abstract

Application management refers to the process of making software applications available to end-users and providing automated mechanisms for launching and joining such applications. The Programmers' Playground is a computing environment for creating distributed applications from modular, reusable components. This paper discusses a set of tools that enable application developers to: (1) design and debug Playground distributed applications from existing "off-the-shelf" components using a visual configuration tool, (2) make new application components available on the Internet through a "launcher" service, and (3) make complete distributed applications available via a World Wide Web interface, enabling end-users to launch and join the applications interactively. Our system automates the tasks involved in launching distributed applications. This system is completely general-purpose; no programming is required to customize it for particular applications.

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Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K7SQ8XNB

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