Title: A Web-Based Distributed Programming Environment*


Kiyoko Aoki and D. T. Lee

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
email: {kiyoko, dtlee}@iis.sinica.edu.tw

*Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation under 
the Grant CCR-9731638, and by the National Science Council under the 
Grant NSC-89-2213-E-001-012.

Abstract:

A Java-based system called the GeoJAVA System was introduced
in [2].  This system allows a user to remotely compile his/her
own C/C++ programs and execute them for visualization among a group
of remote users.  
DISPE, which stands for DIStributed Programming Environment,
expands on the {\it GeoJAVA System} by allowing the resulting
executables to be run on systems other than the host on which
they were compiled, thus making the system more versatile.
DISPE uses Common Object Request Broker (CORBA) services to enable 
executables compiled on this system to invoke methods in libraries 
on remote sites in an architecturally heterogeneous environment.  
Not only does this allow users to compile and execute their programs 
remotely, but the maintenance and duplication of libraries is lowered 
since agents are used to search for symbols in libraries located 
remotely and to compile them with the user's source code.  
As long as there is an Internet connection between the hosts on 
which these libraries reside, the agents can search and compile 
with these libraries.

Proc. 8th Int'l Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking 
Europe 2000, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2000.