Java mirrors: building blocks for remote interaction

The Internet has created new opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration. Scientists and engineers working in geographically different locations remotely visualize the results of their large-scale simulations and their models use real-time information captured by remote instruments. The use of mirrors across the Internet and from mobile devices requires novel capabilities from the Java-based JMOSS mirrors which are described in this paper. The Mirror Object Model views all application-level entities as objects with associated methods and state, even when the application is actually written in Fortran or C. The paper presents an interactive design workbench for the Rapid Tooling Testbed (RTTB).