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Distributed Component System Based on Architecture Description: The SOFA Experience

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2002)

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In this paper, the authors share their experience gathered during the design and implementation of a runtime environment for the SOFA component system. The authors focus on the issues of mapping the SOFA component denition language into the C++ language and the integration of a CORBA middleware into the SOFA component system, aimingto support transparently distributed applications in a real-life environment. The experience highlights general problems related to the type system of architecture description languages and middleware implementations, the mappingof the type system into the implementation language, and the support for dynamic changes of the application architecture.

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  1. Department of Software Engineering, Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 25, 118 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Kalibera & Petr Tůma

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  2. RMIT University School of Computer Science and IT, GPO Box 2476V, VIC 3001, Melbourne, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Kalibera, T., Tůma, P. (2002). Distributed Component System Based on Architecture Description: The SOFA Experience. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36124-3_63

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