PluginPlay Background

The topics in this part are meant to motivate the need for the PluginPlay project, and provide a high-level introduction to the concepts and architecture of PluginPlay. More details of the design are found in the developer documentation Developer Documentation.

Contents:

• PluginPlay Overview
  • What is PluginPlay?
  • Who should use PluginPlay?
  • How does PluginPlay work?
• Developing Scientific Software
  • Scientific Software Circa 2000
  • What Sets Scientific Software Apart?
• PluginPlay Statement of Need
• PluginPlay Alternatives
  • Inversion of Control Frameworks
  • Computational Chemistry Component-Based Frameworks
  • Summary
• Terminology and Abbreviations
  • Terminology
  • Abbreviations
• Architecture of PluginPlay
  • ParallelZone
  • Module Manager
  • Cache
  • Call Graph
  • Summary