Constellation: A Web-Based Design Framework for Developing Network Applications
Constellation is a Web-based design framework for developing distributed applications which allows a single user or group of users to concurrently access and manipulate different aspects of a distributed application from a simple Mosaic-like front-end tool. Users can edit and build programs and documents, manage source code, debug and instrument running distributed programs, read manual pages and other documents, browse through source code and much, much more from a simple yet powerful front-end tool. Constellation is designed to work in a heterogeneous networked environment. It works with different host types and different OS environments, and supports different communication protocols. It is designed to work with hybrid client/server applications that consist of new as well as legacy code. Constellation is easily extensible to support new protocols, hosts, servers, services and back-end tools.