Example

The HTML page http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/matt/join/ijDoc/reFig/reFig.html includes an applet that displays and reproduces a standard seismic processing result: a normal-move-out of CMP gather dependent on a given constant velocity. Figure  displays a Netscape browser accessing that page. To successfully access the page, your browser must run Java JDK1.1 (I tested this successfully with Netscape 4.0.5 and HotJava 1.0. I am told that Internet Explorer 4.0 also supports Java 1.1.). In an Java enabled browser, the buttons in the Figure caption execute the reproducibility commands.

 

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Figure 1 The shown HTML page uses a Java applet to include a reproducible figure and its push-buttons.

The HTML page and the underlying Java applications are a prototype. Below I discuss a few implementation details of this prototype. Finally, I argue that such Java-enabled reproducible pages can be derived automatically if the underlying program is coded in Java.

Dear Reader: the rest of the this article discusses details of a reproducible document implementation. If you were only interested in the concept of reproducible documents, you may want to skip the rest.