InterBase: an execution environment for heterogeneous software systems

Author

Bukhres, Omran A. ; Chen, Jiansan ; Du, Weimin ; Elmagarmid, Ahmed K. ; Pezzoli, Robert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

26

Issue

8

fYear

1993

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

69

Abstract

The InterBase system, which integrates preexisting systems over a distributed, autonomous, and heterogeneous environment using a tool-based interface, is described. It supports heterogeneous applications without violating the local autonomy of component systems. The InterBase system locates and starts remote services, transfers and transforms data among different services, manages failures, and controls parallelism between multiple global applications running concurrently. InterBase also uses remote system interfaces (RSIs), which are superimposed on each software resource, to deal with the problem of heterogeneity. The RSIs transform commands and data between global applications and various software resources, forming a homogeneous interface to heterogeneous software resources.<>

Keywords

open systems; programming environments; user interfaces; InterBase; component systems; execution environment; heterogeneous software resources; heterogeneous software systems; homogeneous interface; local autonomy; multiple global applications; parallelism; remote services; remote system interfaces; tool-based interface; Application software; Data engineering; Database systems; Distributed computing; Hardware; Reliability engineering; Software systems; Synthetic aperture sonar; Transaction databases; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.223544

Filename

223544