Dispatch - JavaBeans for Distributed Workflow & Data Distribution

Dispatch is a collection of JavaBeans featuring Data Model, Distribution, and Access for Distributed Workflow & Data Distribution.

Dispatch data models conform to Java Collection hierarchy without implementing required interface so it can be used for JDK 1.1 applications, and will be retrofitted to be parts of JDK 1.2 Collections. They extend data containers to function as data carriers and data receivers with multi language support and persistent connectors for moving data around Intranet / Extranet / Internet, from local Operating System files and DBMS. Dispatch data model adds 3 additional mechanisms on top of what will be available in JDK 1.2 collections: a general persistent object container, a structure-data record, and an object table-format database. Record has all functions of a general object container plus features for setting data record to guarantee the integrity of a record data: each record has the same number of fields, and data in each field of all records belong to the same class. DataTable database works with or without a primary key index constructed from one or many fields. Dispatch data models can be multipoint distribution (one to many) and collection (many to one).

Data distribution consists of:

• a general information dispatcher that delivers each round up to 8 Serializable attachments to update up to 8 Listeners.
• 4 event JavaBeans, modeled in the patterns of JDK core event messaging: CustomEvent, CustomTimer, PropertyChange, and VetoableChange. These event beans function as controllers for message dispatching and data delivering in a well defined JDK 1.2 object technology: model - controller - view/receiver. Activities of these controller beans can be logged to a table database.
• Remote Procedure Call via HTTP, RMI, and CORBA where client objects call methods in server objects.

Data access consists of:

• FileIO bean to allow Dispatch data models persistent states in Operating System files. Dispatch Standard package also has Print bean for printing to local printers, and SetLocale bean with built-in selected Locale messaging to make all components multi language aware.
• JDBC database connectors to various DBMS such as Oracle and DB2.

Dispatch Standard and Enterprise are now combined into Dispatch 1.1 (compatible with JDK1.1 and 1.2). Dispatch Standard is appropriate for mobile and stand alone applications, where clients use operating systems of their choices for working and storage without requiring a database engine. At client site, applications can be printed via available local printers and can support multi languages. Dispatch Enterprise makes applications fully distributed via peer-to-peer and/or client/server connections, and persistent/resurrected from various industrial strength DBMS. Dispatch Enterprise takes out the complexities of network and Internet technologies in application development by providing required pipelines for interconnections and distributed messaging.

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