Type Management: A Key to Software Reuse in Open Distributed Systems (1997)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the 1st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC ’97). Gold |
| Citations: | 2 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Christiansen97typemanagement:,
author = {B. Christiansen and M. Münke and K. Müller-Jones and W. Lamersdorf},
title = {Type Management: A Key to Software Reuse in Open Distributed Systems},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Workshop (EDOC ’97). Gold},
year = {1997},
pages = {78--89}
}
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Abstract
Reuse of software components already available in open distributed systems is a promising approach for efficient development of complex distributed applications. In open distributed systems, type mechanisms are used both to find appropriate external software components and also to guarantee that their respective interfaces match. Furthermore, a type manager supports application developers in browsing already existing functionality interactively and supports the automatic mediation of compatible software components at run-time. This paper elaborates on a uniform view and handling of the functionality offered by software components besides context-specific aspects and a framework for different flavours of compatibility allowing for the automatic deduction of relationships. Finally, we describe our current type management prototype implementation. 1 Introduction Recent advances in telecommunications and networking enable remote access to services offered in global networks w...
