- Flicker uses the dynamic capabilities of Java and the
Internet
- Can access different sources of image data:
- Investigator's images can be read from
their local computer's FTP server
- Web databases contain images
located at different Web sites
+---- Internet -----+-------------- ~ ---+--- ~ ---+--- ... ---+
| | | | |
| | | | |
User's Web browser Flicker Web server DB2 DB3 DBn
| running |---> Flicker Web image
| flicker | Java program databases
| |
User's image files |---> images in DB1
on local FTP server
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