A configurable protocol architecture for CORBA environments

Author

Crane, Stephen ; Dulay, Naranker

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK

fYear

1997

fDate

9-11 Apr 1997

Firstpage

187

Lastpage

194

Abstract

Describes a flexible architecture for building the protocols required to allow interaction between distributed objects in a CORBA environment. A key feature of the architecture is its ability to select the elements of a protocol stack dynamically at bind-time depending on the properties of the interface being accessed. This permits multiple object-invocation protocols to coexist such that a system may support local, intra-ORB (object request broker) and inter-ORB protocols and allows the selection of the most appropriate protocol at run-time. In addition, the architecture is capable of supporting “non-standard” interaction protocols such as multimedia streams. This paper outlines the architectural principles used and describes an efficient implementation of the CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol

Keywords

Internet; distributed processing; multimedia communication; object-oriented methods; open systems; protocols; reconfigurable architectures; CORBA Internet Inter-ORB Protocol; CORBA environments; architectural principles; bind-time dynamic protocol stack element selection; configurable protocol architecture; distributed object interaction; flexible architecture; interface access; interoperability; intra-ORB protocols; local protocols; multimedia streams; multiple object-invocation protocols; nonstandard interaction protocols; object request broker; run-time protocol selection; Access protocols; Buildings; Computer architecture; Cranes; Distributed computing; Educational institutions; Multimedia databases; Runtime; Streaming media; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1997. Proceedings. ISADS 97., Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7783-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.1997.590621

Filename

590621