The Programmers' Playground Application Management User Guide

William M. Shapiro, T. Paul McCartney, E.F. Berkley Shands
Application Management permits the advertising, launching, and configuring of distributed applications created using The Programmers'Playground . Applications can be documented and made available to end-users through the use of application pages on the World Wide Web. The launching and configuring of applications is performed by a brokerage system consisting of an application broker and one or more hierarchies of module launchers. This document describes how to setup and use the components of the Application Management system.

KEYWORDS: application management, client-server applications, distributed computing, resource allocation

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Washington University Department of Computer Science WUCS-97-32, August 1997.


Prepared by T. Paul McCartney (paul@cs.wustl.edu)
Washington University Department of Computer Science