Title :
Mediating connectors
Author :
Balzer, Robert M. ; Goldman, Neil M.
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sci. Inst. Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA
Abstract :
We have developed a technology for mediating all shared library calls. These mediators can be dynamically installed and removed during execution. They can be used as an instrument for these interfaces, to monitor their behavior, to integrate legacy components together, or to encapsulate potentially harmful or unreliable components. Since modern commercial operating systems promote packaging third party functionality as shared libraries and are themselves composed of shared libraries the ability to mediate these interfaces provides access to the broad range of services available on that platform. An implementation of this technology is available for Windows NT
Keywords :
application program interfaces; distributed object management; remote procedure calls; software libraries; API; Windows NT; commercial operating systems; encapsulation; harmful components; legacy components; mediating connectors; mediators; shared library calls; third party functionality; unreliable components; Application software; Connectors; Instruments; Joining processes; Leg; Mediation; Monitoring; Operating systems; Software libraries; Software standards;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0225-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776417