WWW Meets Linda: Linda for Global WWW-Based Transaction Processing Systems
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TL;DR
Linda is introduced: a language that coordinates the cooperation of several processes that creates the possiblility of W3-based front-ends for stateful transaction systems, distributed applications, and different programming languages.
Abstract
World Wide Web (W3) is a fast-growing tool for providing information globally. To cope with HTML it makes applications independent from the operating system and provides them a standard interface. Because there are limitations in the application structure of CGI scripts, we introduce Linda: a language that coordinates the cooperation of several processes. Including Linda in W3-based applications allows a separation of input/output processing and data processing. This new application structure creates the possiblility of W3-based front-ends for stateful transaction systems, distributed applications, and different programming languages. To demonstrate how easily Linda can be included in W3-based applications, we show code samples in Perl and two example applications that have already been inplemented with Linda and W3.