DocumentCode
2417680
Title
Middleware support for coordination in distributed applications
Author
Chiang, Chia-Chu ; Tang, Peiyi
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Arkansas Univ., Little Rock, AR, USA
fYear
2003
fDate
10-12 Dec. 2003
Firstpage
148
Lastpage
155
Abstract
The current state of the art of existing middleware technologies does not support the development of distributed applications that need processes to complete a task collaboratively. We extend current middleware technologies with multiparty interaction rather than design a new distributed programming language for application developers. An object adapter for coordination running as a component provides support for the coordinated applications by isolating, encapsulating, and managing a component´s interactions outside the component. Dynamic interface binding was designed to allow an adapter to examine the signature of the requested services at runtime such as operation names, parameter orders, parameter types, and parameter sizes. The interfaces of interconnecting components are bound at runtime. In addition, the interface language mapping allows an interface in a specific programming language to be automatically generated from an IP (interacting processes)-like IDL (IP-IDL) interface. The use of IP-IDL for coordination simplifies the development of distributed applications for coordination.
Keywords
distributed programming; middleware; synchronisation; coordinated application; distributed applications; distributed programming language; dynamic interface binding; middleware technology; multiparty interaction; object adapter; Application software; Art; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Isolation technology; Java; Middleware; Runtime; Specification languages;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Multimedia Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings. Fifth International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Taichung, Taiwan
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2031-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MMSE.2003.1254436
Filename
1254436
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