Title :
Enhancing interoperability of DCE applications: a type management approach
Author :
Biggs, Christopher J. ; Brookes, Wayne ; Indulska, Jadwiga
Author_Institution :
CRC for Distributed Syst. Technol., Queensland Univ., Brisbane, Qld., Australia
Abstract :
Presents an enhancement to the OSF DCE platform for distributed computing that is designed to enhance the interoperability of applications. Concepts from open distributed processing (ODP) have been taken, extended and applied to DCE, to improve the capacity for late binding, system evolution, resource discovery and software reusability. This paper analyzes approaches to application interoperability in a number of distributed computing platforms and based on the results, describes an enhancement for the DCE platform. The paper focuses on one component of this enhancement: a type manager that is able to canonically describe types of interacting objects and types of relationships between them
Keywords :
distributed processing; open systems; software reusability; type theory; Distributed Computing Environment; OSF DCE platform; Open Software Foundation; application interoperability; interacting objects; late binding; open distributed processing; resource discovery; software reusability; system evolution; type management; type manager; Application software; Computer science; Cyclic redundancy check; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Large-scale systems; Object oriented modeling; Open systems; Paper technology; Standards development;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed and Networked Environments, 1994. Proceedings., First International Workshop on Services in
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5835-5
DOI :
10.1109/SDNE.1994.337778
