A comparison of the basic DO concepts in standardization

Author

Blanc, X. ; Gervais, M.P. ; Le Delliou, J.

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Inf., Paris VI Univ., France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

209

Lastpage

217

Abstract

The paper provides a comparison of the basic DO (distributed object) concepts, namely “object”, “instance” and “class” used in various standards of the DO world. Two families of standards are identified: those related to the modelling aspects (MOF and UML) and those related to the architectural and implementation aspects (CORBA and Java). Moreover, the RM-ODP standard is considered as it includes both aspects. The objective is to help out with a common understanding of these concepts. For this, we compare these concepts as defined in these standards according to the four layer architecture proposed by the MOF standard. An example is provided to illustrate the comparison

Keywords

Java; distributed object management; software standards; specification languages; CORBA; Java; MOF standard; RM-ODP standard; basic DO concepts; distributed object concepts; four layer architecture; implementation aspects; modelling aspects; standardization; Communication standards; Companies; Dictionaries; Java; Standardization; Sun; Testing; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Objects and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. DOA '00. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Antwerp

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0819-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DOA.2000.874192

Filename

874192