Dynamic component gluing across different componentware systems

Author

Cerqueira, Renato ; Cassino, Carlos ; Ierusalimschy, Roberto

Author_Institution

Dept. de Inf., PUC-Rio, Brazil

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

371

Abstract

We present a model to support dynamic gluing of components from different componentware systems, such as CORBA, COM and Java. This model adopts a dynamic composition approach combined to the interactive facilities offered by an interpreted language. Based on this model, we define a common design for the implementation of bindings between glue languages and component systems. The proposed design provides a natural way to create dynamic bridges between different component systems. We also describe the LuaOrb system, an implementation of the proposed model that binds the interpreted language Lua to Java, CORBA and COM. With LuaOrb, Lua acts as a unifying glue language, wherein we can write code that freely use and mix components from these three component systems

Keywords

Java; distributed object management; interactive systems; program interpreters; COM; CORBA; Java; LuaOrb system; component systems; componentware systems; dynamic bridges; dynamic component gluing; dynamic composition approach; interactive facilities; interpreted language; unifying glue language; Application software; Bridges; Computer architecture; Java; Programming; Prototypes; Read only memory; Software architecture; Visual BASIC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Objects and Applications, 1999. Proceedings of the International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0182-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DOA.1999.794064

Filename

794064