A VisAD application
is a network of components:
Data - netCDF, HDF-5, FITS, HDF-EOS, Vis5D, McIDAS, GIF,
JPG
Display - Java3D or Java2D - a window
or virtual reality
Computational - may be linked via
JNI to Fortran or C
User Interface
Distributed around the network (Java RMI distributed objects)
Connections are persistent, many-to-many and event-driven
Connections between data and displays
are two-way