INTRODUCTION TO SILK TM AND JAVA-BASED SIMULATION

Silk is a general-purpose simulation language based on Java programming language. Silk, however, is more t just another simulation language. It is a new standard creating usable and reusable object-oriented simula components and models. The Silk modeling language usable because it represents a unique marriage of fami process-oriented modeling constructs and the powe object-oriented features of a general purpose programm language. Silk models are reusable because they are created using professional Java visual developm environments that support graphical assembly of s contained Silk modeling components based on JavaBeans component architecture. Java’s adoption a standard language for computation on the World Wi Web also means that Silk models can be deployed in w that exploit this new medium.