The Playground Mediator: A Visual Tool for Configuring and Debugging Distributed Applications
- T. Paul McCartney
The Mediator is a visual configuration tool for use with The
Programmers' Playground distributed programming environment. With the
Mediator, one can interactively launch distributed application
modules, configure communication among the modules, observe
communication patterns, interactively control module communication,
kill running modules, and receive imported applications from a
separate World Wide Web interface. This manual describes how to use
the Mediator both as a stand-alone configuration tool and as a visual
interface to the Playground Application Management System.
KEYWORDS: component-based applications, configuration,
distributed computing, distributed debugging, visual language
Available as
postscript (.ps) or
compressed postscript (.ps.gz).
Washington University Department of Computer Science WUCS-98-09,
March 1998.
Prepared by
T. Paul McCartney
(paul@cs.wustl.edu)
Washington University Department of Computer Science