SIMPROCESS Advanced Feature

External/Remote Capability

The external/remote capability in SIMPROCESS provides our users and services team with powerful capabilities to extend SIMPROCESS models. This capability can be as subtle as placing real time plots on another computer to speed up the simulation on the desktop where the model is running to highly complex interaction with user-written applications, commercial off-the-shelf software packages, and dispersed models over a network. This point paper will describe some scenarios where these capabilities might have practical application and furthermore, describe the level of complexity that may be involved in using the features.

• Remote Plot capability allows plots to be displayed via a separate Plot Server on any connected network
• External Call statement added to the Expression language. Allows simulations to call methods of external Java classes
• Remote Call statement added to the Expression language. Allows simulations to call external applications using Java's RMI facilities
• External Schedule added to Generate activities. Allows an application outside of SIMPROCESS to drive the generation of Entities