DECS: an environment for developing cooperative distributed software systems

Author

Rana, Satyendra P. ; Keebler, Frederick ; Compton, Mac ; Kopec, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

16-18 Aug 1993

Firstpage

316

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of an environment for developing cooperative distributed applications. Salient features of this environment include an extensible toolkit of cooperative mechanisms called agencies. An agency is a multi-site flexible entity that encapsulates communication and distribution concerns and exports an object oriented server type local interface to it´s clients. The development environment provides a graphical user interface for composing distributed applications and new components from existing components

Keywords

client-server systems; computer aided software engineering; cooperative systems; development systems; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented methods; programming environments; DECS; communication; cooperative distributed applications; cooperative distributed software systems; cooperative mechanisms; distributed applications; distribution; extensible toolkit; graphical user interface; multi-site flexible entity; object oriented server type local interface; salient features; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Graphical user interfaces; Microcomputers; Software systems; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 36th Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1760-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1993.343066

Filename

343066