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Software connectors are commonly used in component-based software engineering to model and implement inter-component communication. When used in a distributed environment, the responsibility of connectors is to make the remote communication transparent to components. For this task, connectors often employ a kind of middleware. In this paper, we evaluate the feasibility of making the remote communication completely transparent.We consider middleware commonly used in today’s enterprise systems, namely CORBA and RMI in Java. We point out issues that prevent the transparency and analyze the impact on components together with possible tradeoffs.
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Bureš, T., Hala, J., Hnětynka, P. (2009). Using Connectors to Address Transparent Distribution in Enterprise Systems – Pitfalls and Options. In: Lee, R., Ishii, N. (eds) Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 209. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01203-7_7
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