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Adding roles to CORBA objects
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| Venue: | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| Citations: | 41 - 11 self |
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@ARTICLE{Canal_addingroles,
author = {Carlos Canal and Lidia Fuentes and Ernesto Pimentel and José M. Troya and Antonio Vallecillo},
title = {Adding roles to CORBA objects},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
year = {},
pages = {242--260}
}
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Abstract
Abstract—Traditional IDLs were defined for describing the services that objects offer, but not those services they require from other objects, nor the relative order in which they expect their methods to be called. Some of the existing proposals try to add protocol information to object interfaces, but most of them fail to do so in a modular way. In this paper we propose an extension of the CORBA IDL that uses a sugared subset of the polyadic-calculus for describing object service protocols, based on the concept of roles. Roles allow the modular specification of the observable behavior of CORBA objects, reducing the complexity of the compatibility tests. Our main aim is the automated checking of protocol interoperability between CORBA objects in open component-based environments, using similar techniques to those used in software architecture description and analysis. In addition, our proposal permits the study of substitutability between CORBA objects, as well as the realization of dynamic compatibility tests during their runtime execution. Index Terms—Interface definition languages, software components, component-based software development, protocols, compatibility and substitutability of components.
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corba object relative order dynamic compatibility test abstract traditional idls observable behavior corba idl main aim runtime execution index term interface definition language automated checking similar technique protocol interoperability object service protocol modular way open component-based environment modular specification sugared subset component-based software development software component software architecture description protocol information compatibility test
