Software bus transceiver

Frameworks such as “software-buses” enable the integration of different software components into a coherent suite of applications. However, the communication and interoperation between these software components are limited by the boundary of the framework. We describe the software bus transceiver as a translation protocol and supporting architecture to facilitate communication and interoperation of software components from different frameworks. This paper describes the model and the design of the software bus transceiver, the construction of an experimental prototype, and a demonstration scenario that shows how two independent software components can be bridged, using the software bus transceiver, to collaborate on a common task, without any code modification