This approach opens up a wide range of possibilities. For instance, the traditional approach of data archiving has been to archive raw data, plus data calibrated soon after the observations were carried out. The fact that even modest computers today are capable of performing the calibration of large data sets in a reasonable time makes this approach feasible. It is quite conceivable that future observational facilities will soon eliminate the storing of calibrated data. With the increased appreciation of data archives, and with more sophisticated and larger data sets, it is quite evident that the archive machine will become hopelessly overloaded.
Applets provide the elegant solution of pushing the computational load out to the client site.
Thanks are due to Richard Hook and Michael Naumann for solving a number of Java related installation problems.