1. A graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring pipelines, the GUI displayable on a user computer monitor and stored on a computer memory and comprising: at least one pipe input set window configured to permit a user to define a type of pipe input set data; at least one GUI page based on the type, the GUI page being generated by translating the type using a configuration file to a class and using Java reflection to generate an instance of the class, the instance producing the GUI page; and using the GUI page to configure a data pipeline, and the GUI further comprising at least one Pipe Output Set tab for defining PipeOutputSet representative of a type of output data from the pipeline.