Software for Real-Time Display of Data via the Internet

The JGOAL collection of computer programs facilitates the real-time display, via the Internet, of multiple streams of data from the space shuttle and its ground support equipment at Kennedy Space Center. JGOAL is also readily adaptable to other applications that involve the real-time display of real or simulated data from other sources. JGOAL is so named because it is written in the Java programming language and because the data to be displayed are first processed for distribution over the Internet by a program called "PCGOAL," which runs on a server computer that receives the data streams from a common data buffer.