Adding semantics to interface definition languages

Author

Watkins, Damien ; Thompson, Dean

Author_Institution

Fac. of Inf. Technol., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

fYear

1998

fDate

9-13 Nov 1998

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

78

Abstract

Developing distributed heterogeneous systems is a difficult task. A number of architectures have been developed to abstract the complex underlying technologies and present a simpler foundation to the software engineer. Many of these architectures make use of an interface definition language (IDL) to simplify programming development. These IDLs allow the developer to express the properties of an interface but not its semantics. This paper details an approach which software engineers can take to express the semantics of an interface without the need to extend IDLs. A demonstration of this approach is detailed in this paper

Keywords

distributed programming; programming language semantics; software engineering; specification languages; complex underlying technology abstraction; distributed heterogeneous systems; interface definition languages; programming development; semantics; software architectures; software engineering; Automatic control; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Information technology; Middleware; Object oriented modeling; Programming profession; Radio astronomy; Sockets; Storage automation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australian

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9187-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASWEC.1998.730914

Filename

730914