HTML5 Web Workers- Agent based computantion for the Web Browser

This post presents an example using HTML5 Web Workers.

The Web Workers are very similar to the Agent based computation presented in previous posts:

·        Agent based example using F# MailboxProcessor

(http://caxelrud.blogspot.com/2010/12/agent-based-example-using-f-mailbox.html)

·        Real-time Computation Engine with F#

(http://caxelrud.blogspot.com/2012/03/real-time-computational-engine-with-f.html)

Example:

This example use one HTML5 main page and one Web Worker.

The example consists of two parts:

1.      Non-state-based request/reply messages to the Web Worker:

Sum: send a message with two values and receive back the sum of them

2.      State-based interaction with the Web Worker:

Check State: receives from the Web Worker its state (idle, active)

Go to Active: starts in the Web Worker a periodic procedure every 15 sec that generate two random numbers and keeps an accumulation of them

Clear Accumulation

Go to Idle: stops the periodic procedure in the Web Worker 

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