Tied Up in Meta-Nots: Connecting Generic Processing Units

In the section "Connecting the Nots," we created a generic processing unit with input and output ports, and in the section "The Knee Bone's Connected to the...: Connecting with JGraphT," you saw how to connect arbitrary Java objects together into a graph structure. In this section, we'll connect component input and output ports using JGraphT. Using this design, we can maintain the port connections (the wiring) separately from the component implementations. In fact, we don't really ...

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