Configuration of communication software for distributed applications

An object-oriented approach to the specification of communication building blocks and an appropriate configuration to support a required communication service has been developed. In this framework suitable elemental communication building blocks are defined and parameterized with regard to various communication properties. According to specific communication requirements the communication building blocks are configured to provide the needed communication service. For the transformation of the configured communication service into an efficiently running implementation several mapping alternatives are considered, depending on the facilities of the underlying operating system