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Background
NeXtMidas Benefits/Features
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- Why Use NeXtMidas?
- Cross platform (Linux, Windows, etc)
- Web-enabled
- A single NeXtMidas macro can be deployed as a stand-alone
application or via Java
WebStart
- Direct support for network-protocols (like HTTP)
- Embedded Java VNC client (VNC option)
- Ease of GUI development
- Supports the use of GUI builders (such as NetBeans) and easy-to-use Java
profilers (such as the NetBeans Profiler).
- Easily integrated with other Java software and Midas systems
- Can run X-Midas FORTRAN/C++ primitives and use URL syntax (XBC option tree)
- X-Midas can run NeXtMidas primitives (NeXtOPT)
- Imagery Mapping (NeXtEarth)
- Ability to serve images in Google-like manner to a remote client (
PLOT )
- Enhancements to Standard Midas Features:
Pipes |
"Hot-connect" and "warm-start" |
Controls Sections |
Non-blocking |
Real-time Widgets |
No wrapper code! |
Messages |
Distributed queue and simple message passing |
Error Trapping |
Built into the macro (no TRAP command needed) |
Web Access |
All file-based primitives can access remote web services |
Tables |
Result collections |
Threads |
Primitives run in separate threads not processes |
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