IA - Interoperability Architecture

Interoperability Architecture (IA) provides a uniform platform for applications' development over a family of languages and software tools, in a distributed environment. As a building IA component serves STUB specified in a form of generic module which may be customized for different languages and software tools. Orbix, CORBA-compliant system is used as a glue.

Status of the project

At this moment IA enables cooperation of components from Strand (info: strand88@sstl.uucp), PCN, Linda, ANSA and Orbix (which also serves as a glue). One with the most important objectives of this work was achieving transparency of services' invocations between components from different environments. For this purpose, stream-like communication mechanism with other IA's environments was developed for declarative systems (Strand, PCN) and Linda, and an idea of gateway was applied for object-oriented systems (ANSA, Orbix).

Current work

• Translation of more advanced data types between various languages
• Coordination of components activity
• Trading of components services
• Distribution of Dispatching and Binding Module in Orbix
• Fault-tolerance of components cooperation

Project Members

• Andrzej Uszok
• Grzegorz Czajkowski
• Krzysztof Zielinski

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Papers

• Interoperability in Open Distributed Processing. Technical Report, February 1994

• Coordination through Interoperability in Distributed Processing. Presented during ECOOP'94 Workshop 'Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution', Bologna, Italy, organized by P. Ciancarini, O. Nierstrasz and A. Yonezawa, July 1994

• Interoperability Gateway Construction for Object-Oriented Distributed Systems. Proceedings of the 6'th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research NWPER'94, Lund, Sweden, TR of Lund University, June 1994

• Distributed Declarative Systems as Parts of Cooperating Software Environments. Proceedings of the ICLP'94 Post-Conference Workshop 'Integration of Declarative Paradigms', Santa Margerita, Italy, TR of the Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik, June 1994

• Object-oriented Techniques and Systems in Integration of Software Environments. Position paper accepted fot OOPSLA'94 Workshop Multi-Language Object Model', Portland, Oregon, October 1994

• Wspoldzialanie Systemow Rozproszonych - Interoperability of Distributed Systems. Chapter in a book "Srodowiska programowania rozproszonego w sieciach komputerowych", Ksiegarnia Akademicka Krakow, September 1994, (in Polish)

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Relation to other projects of our Distributed Systems Research Group

• TOCOOS - Inter-ORB gateway

• Interoperability Layer in MODIMOS

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Related projects Worldwide

• ILU - Inter-Language Unification from PARC Xerox

• Concert/C from IBM Watson Research Center (WWW is not available, mail to concert-c@watson.ibm.com)

• DOM -Distributed Object Management from GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Massachusetts

• Object-Oriented Interoperability from University of Geneva (D. Konstantas)

• Logic, Functional and Multi-Paradigm Programming from Department of Theoretical Informatics, Charles University, Prague

• LEDA -- multiparadigm programming language

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Andrzej Uszok uszok@tulip.ics.agh.edu.pl