HYPERDAQ - WHERE DATA ACQUISITION MEETS THE WEB
R. Arcidiacono, V. Brigljević, Eric Cano, S. Cittolin, S. Erhan, D. Gigi, Frank Glege, M. Gulmini, Johannes Gutleber, C. Jacobs, P. Kreuzer, Giuseppe Lo Presti, N. Marinelli, G. Maron, Frans Meijers, Emilio Meschi, Steven Murray, Luciano Orsini, M. Pieri, L. Pollet · 2005
HyperDAQ was conceived to give users access to distributed data acquisition systems easily. To achieve that, we marry two well-established technologies: the World Wide Web and Peer-to-Peer systems. An embedded HTTP protocol engine turns an executable program into a browsable Web application that can reflect its internal data structures using a data serialization package. While the Web is based on static hyperlinks to destinations known at the time of page creation, HyperDAQ creates links to data content providers dynamically. Peer-to-Peer technology enables adaptive navigation from one application to another depending on the lifetime of application modules. Traditionally, distributed systems give the user a single point of access. We take a radically different approach. Every node may become an access point from which the whole system can be explored.