A Coordination Framework for Software Component Based Development

Coordination technology addresses the construction of open, flexible systems from software components in distributed environments. Most of the work on coordination technology so far has focused on the development of special coordination languages and environments that provide the basic mechanisms for realizing the coordination layer of a distributed application. Typically each new language proposes its own set of coordination abstractions that realizes a particular paradigm. Coordination problems, however, are not always well-suited to a particular paradigm. Instead of proposing a new language, we are attempting to develop a framework that realizes various useful coordination abstractions. We present our initial analysis of the coordination domain, and give a few examples of simple applications using the developed coordination framework