ProcessFast, a Java Framework for Development of Concurrent and Distributed Applications

Today, any application that requires processing information gathered from the Web will likely require a parallel processing approach to be able to scale. While writing such applications, the developer should be able to exploit several types of parallelism paradigms in a natural way. Most of the available development tools are focused on just one of these parallelism types, e.g. the data parallelism, stream processing, etc. In this paper, we introduce ProcessFast, a Java framework for the development of concurrent/distributed applications, designed to allow the developer to integrate both stream/task parallelism and data parallelism in the same application and to seamlessly combine solutions to sub-problems where each solution exploits a specific programming model.