Tutorial Summaries

This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to RestFlow and a description of key features needed by workflow developers. The contents of each tutorial chapter are summarized below:

Tutorial 1. Setting up RestFlow	Describes how to set up an environment for writing and running RestFlow workflows.
Tutorial 2. Hello World	Illustrates the process of building and running workflows with RestFlow.
Tutorial 3. Extended Example	Demonstrates some of the advantages of programming with data flows.
Tutorial 4. Workflow Traces	Discusses the records made of events that occur during a workflow run.
Tutorial 5. Actors vs Nodes	Introduces the concept of actors.
Tutorial 6. Script Actors	Shows how to create new actors using bash and other scripting languages.
Tutorial 7. Choosing a Director	Explains how to select the model of computation for a workflow.
Tutorial 8. Subworkflows	Demonstrates the use of a workflow as an actor in a another workflow.
Tutorial 9. Actor Behaviors	Covers the broad range of actor behaviors that RestFlow supports.