Tutorial on Flow-Based Programming (Filter File application)

Filter File with DrawFBP: use a network of flow-based components to display selected records from files.

General web site on Flow-Based Programming: https://jpaulm.github.io/fbp/ .

This tutorial is repeatable, so that concepts can be shared with others, or reinforced and clarified in future, perhaps on a different platform. FBP, as demonstrated here, is fully asynchronous, and uses a "conveyor belt" analogy, rather than being procedural like a number of other systems which also use the term "Flow-Based Programming".

Using DrawFBP, we design and build a network of components from the JavaFBP library (jar file), then compile and run in a Windows or Unix environment.