摘要 : The article examines how discrete simulation and Java can light upthe Web. Any programmer who is competent in Java will find that it isstraightforward to develop a Java based discrete event simulationlibrary useful for real work. ... 展开 The article examines how discrete simulation and Java can light upthe Web. Any programmer who is competent in Java will find that it isstraightforward to develop a Java based discrete event simulationlibrary useful for real work. However, the article only scratches thesurface. Java has many other possibilities for extending discrete eventsimulation. For example, the in-built support can be provided by Javafor remote method invocation to support distributed and client/serversimulations. The Internet and the intranet protocols are a suitable wayof supporting these developments. These present new ways of developingparallel and distributed simulations that do not need expensive, specialpurpose computer systems. Based on developments in computer supportedcooperative work, Wilcox and Pooley discuss how Java can enablesimulation users to jointly run simulation models even though they areseparated in space and time. There is clearly much more to come 收起