Peers are objects which are used to communicate between NamedObjects such as Histograms created within a Job, and the Job's environment. The goal is to allow an identical job to run either in a batch type environment, or in a GUI enviroment.
The peers have two functions
In the JAS environment the peer implementations are in the jas.job package. The creation of peers in the JAS enviroment is handled by the jas.job.JobFolder class.