Introduction to SilkTM and Java-based simulation

Silk is a general-purpose simulation language based on the Java programming language. Silk, however, is more than just another simulation language. It is a new standard for creating usable and reusable object-oriented simulation components and models. The Silk modeling language is usable because it represents a unique marriage of familiar process-oriented modeling constructs and the powerful object-oriented features of a general purpose programming language. Silk models are reusable because they are created using professional Java visual development environments that support graphical assembly of self-contained Silk modeling components based on the JavaBeans component architecture. Java´s adoption as the standard language for computation on the World Wide Web also means that Silk models can be deployed in ways that exploit this new medium