Abstract

We discuss the design and implementation of a software development platform that allows unsophisticated programmers to include advanced features in their applications with no or very little extra information and effort. These features include the distribution of the application over a network, a powerful configuration and scripting language, an input system to easily construct reasonable interfaces, and some other mechanisms directly related to graphics applications problems. We describe both the techniques used to achieve transparency for the programmer and what exactly a user must do to build new Atlas modules. keywords: Distributed applications, Fault-tolerance, Software development tools 1 INTRODUCTION Atlas represents an attempt to facilitate to programmers in our lab the incorporation to their applications of certain services at a minimum cost. In fact, Atlas helps them build distributed applications (see [1] for a discusion on the problems related to distribution of an appli...

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