An Architecture for the UniFrame Resource Discovery Service

Siram, Nanditha N.; Raje, Rajeev R.; Olson, Andrew M.; Bryant, Barrett R.; Burt, Carol C.; Auguston, Mikhail

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“…domain-engineering and applicationUniFrame Resource Discovery Service (URDS) [Sir02] engineering. The domain-engineering phase simulates the domain development of three-dimensional domains searches federated native component registries in the (business domains [ZhaO4], architecture domains and business domain for matched components.…”

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A Framework for Seamless Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components

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Olson²,

Bryant³

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The UniFrame research was supported under the CIP/SW Program. The vision of this research is to automate the process of integrating heterogeneous and distributed systems that conform to specific quality requirements.This research addressed three key challenges : a) architecture-based interoperability, b) distributed resource discovery, and c) validation of quality requirements.Principles and prototypical systems were created to demonstrate the successful completion of the research. SUBJECT TERMSComponent-based software, distributed computing, Quality of Service, Model-driven architecture. 317-274-5174Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8 Technical SectionExecutive Summary * This is the final report for the project entitled "A Framework for Seamless Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components", supported by the Office of Naval Research under the CIP/SW program, and which was jointly investigated by the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and New Mexico State University/Naval Postgraduate School. The objectives, approach, results achieved, publications, presentations, interactions with other organizations, and educational impact are described in this report. Copies of sample publications are also included as an appendix.The vision of this research is to automate the process of integrating heterogeneous and distributed software components, so as to create distributed systems that conform to specific quality requirements. The research addressed three key issues while creating a framework, called UniFrame, as a first step towards achieving the vision of the research. These three issues were: a) architecture-based interoperability, b) distributed resource discovery, and c) validation of the quality requirements. The underlying principles for the research are based on model-driven generation, multi-level specification of components, a proactive and distributed discovery of resources, and formalism based on Two-level Grammars and Event Grammars. Many different prototypes were created as a proof of concept for this research and were empirically validated. The results were extensively published in professional forums, such as journals, conferences, and invited presentations. The results of the research were also incorporated in the curricula at all the participating organizations and benefited undergraduate as well as graduate students. The infrastructures at the participating universities were also enhanced by creating dedicated laboratories for the research. The results achieved during the life of the project have successfully demonstrated the soundness of the UniFrame principles, thereby, reaffirming the belief that UniFrame presents a comprehensive approach for constructing distributed component-based systems that * satisfy quality requirements. 1 * ObjectivesThe vision of this research is to automate the process of integrating heterogeneous components to create distributed software systems that conform to quality requirements. As a first step towards ac...

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A Framework for Seamless Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components

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Olson²,

Bryant³

et al. 2005

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“…In UniFrame, the Internet Component Broker (ICB) and Headhunters [Sira02] are proposed as two facilities in an effort to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous components. ICB provides translation capacity in terms of adapter technology for achieving interoperability, while Headhunters actively detect the presence of new components in the search space, register their functionality and attempt match-making between client components (service requesters) and server components (service providers).…”

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Modeling Web Services: Toward System Integration in Uniframe

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Web Services offer a platform independent solution for system integration in a distributed environment. But Web Services are weak in representing the business semantics of application domains. This paper presents a model-driven approach for specifying domainspecific component models in an effort to complement the current Web Services technology in terms of enriching the semantics representation. Web Services Description Language (WSDL) can then be generated automatically from the models with generators. The modeling of domain-specific components serves as a front-end to represent the semantics of components as well as for formalizing components while the generated artifacts facilitate component service synthesis.

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“…Each component must be able to specify and guarantee the quality of service (QoS) offered. The headhunter [18] and Internet Component Broker (ICB) [15,18] of the infrastructure are responsible for allowing a seamless integration of different component models and sustaining cooperation among heterogeneous components (adhering to different models). The headhunter is responsible for searching and managing heterogeneous and geographically distributed components.…”

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“…Active distributed component management is the UniFrame resource discovery service (URDS) [18]. It offers the dynamic discovery and management of the heterogeneous software components and assists in the finding of the required components during the phase of the generative application engineering.…”

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Today's and future distributed software systems will certainly require combining heterogeneous software components that are geographically dispersed so that its realization not only meets the functional requirements, but also satisfies the non-functional criteria such as the desired quality of services (QoS). The Unified Approach (UA) incorporates the concepts of product line practice (PLP) and generative programming with the Unified Meta-component Model (UMM) to achieve automatic development, maximal reuse and seamless interoperation. The creation of a software solution for a distributed computing system (DCS), using the UA has two levels, the component level and the system level. In this paper, the system-level generative programming of the UA is described.

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An Architecture for the UniFrame Resource Discovery Service

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A Framework for Seamless Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components

A Framework for Seamless Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Software Components

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Unified approach for system-level generative programming

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