Integrating web-based user interfaces in TMN systems

Software development and TMN user interface development in particular has become a burgeoning industry for tool developers. A range of tools, techniques and quality standards have been introduced, each promising to solve software development problems. TMN systems development has taken advantage on these tools and up-to-date technology. The advent of the Web technology has led us to assess the Web features and benefits for the development of open TMN user interface. This paper relates our experiments in the development of open user interfaces for TMN systems using the Web technology. The foundation of our prototype architecture is CORBA, the main benefits of this approach are its transparent access to any CORBA-based server, openness and reuse. Plugging Web-based interface on TMN CORBA-based manager was possible through OMG IDL interface encapsulation, thanks to its language independence. Legacy TMN software reuse was achieved using our developed CORBA/CMIP gateway implementation compliant to the JIDM specifications, the joint inter-domain group from NMF and Open Group. In this paper we present two approaches for the development of Web-based interfaces: a dynamic approach using automatic generation of HTML pages from a developed classical window-based application and a static approach which uses Java