A packaging system for heterogeneous execution environments

Author

Callahan, John R. ; Purtilo, James M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

17

Issue

6

fYear

1991

fDate

6/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

626

Lastpage

635

Abstract

A packaging system that allows diverse software components to be easily interconnected within heterogeneous programming environments is described. Interface software and stubs are generated for programmers automatically once the programmers express their application´s geometry in a few simple rules and module interconnection language attributes. By generating custom interface code for each application, based on analysis and extraction of interfacing requirements, the system is able to produce executables whose run-time performance is comparable to manually integrated applications. The system is implemented within the Unix environment

Keywords

automatic programming; configuration management; programming environments; user interfaces; Unix environment; custom interface code; diverse software components; geometry; heterogeneous execution environments; heterogeneous programming environments; interfacing requirements; module interconnection language attributes; packaging system; Application software; Computer architecture; Costs; Environmental economics; LAN interconnection; Packaging; Programming profession; Prototypes; Software packages; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.87286

Filename

87286