Title :
Adaptability in CORBA: the mobile proxy approach
Author :
Aziz, Benjamin ; Jensen, Christian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Applications, Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Abstract :
Adaptability is one of the most important challenges in modern distributed systems. It may be defined as the ease with which a software application satisfies the different system constraints and the requirements of users and other applications. Adaptability is needed because distributed systems are inherently open, heterogeneous, and dynamic environments integrating a wide range of platforms, operating systems and applications from a number of different sources. We propose to use mobile proxies to provide adaptability in distributed applications integrated using the CORBA technology. Downloading stubs and skeletons at runtime allows the adaptation of either client or server interfaces as well as the protocol linking the two
Keywords :
client-server systems; distributed object management; CORBA technology; adaptability; client interfaces; distributed systems; mobile proxies; operating systems; protocol; server interfaces; skeleton downloading; software application; stub downloading; system constraints; user requirements; Application software; Computer applications; Computer science; Educational institutions; Open source software; Operating systems; Protocols; Quality of service; Runtime; Skeleton;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Objects and Applications, 2000. Proceedings. DOA '00. International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Antwerp
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0819-7
DOI :
10.1109/DOA.2000.874201