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Software development in a distributed environment: The XMS system

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Advanced Programming Environments

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 244))

Abstract

At BNR, a Software Development Environment (SDE) based on the XMS distributed architecture has been in use for 5 years.

This paper describes the XMS SDE. It shows how the SDE is built as a configuration of the XMS architecture and details some of the unique features of the system. These include the Helix file system and the support for third party software. The paper also presents some of the experience in developing software using a distributed SDE.

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Further reading

  1. Marek Fridrich and William Older, ”Helix: The Architecture of the XMS Distributed File System”, IEEE Software, May 1985.

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  2. Neil Gammage and Liam Casey, ”XMS: A Rendezvous-Based Distributed System Software Architecture.”, IEEE Software, May 1985.

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  3. Neil Gammage, Ragui Kamel and Liam casey, ”Remote Rendezvous”, submitted Software Practice and Experience.

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  4. Ragui Kamel, ”The Impact of Modularity on System Evolution”, to appear IEEE Software.

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  5. Ragui Kamel and Neil Gammage, ”Further Experience with Separate Compilation at BNR“, IFIP Conference on System Implementation Languages: Experience and Assessment, North Holland 1985.

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  6. Telesis Vol. 11, no. 3, 1984. Issue on XMS.

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  1. BNR, Station C, P.O. Box 3511, K1Y 4H7, Ottawa, Canada

    R. F. Kamel

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Reidar Conradi Tor M. Didriksen Dag H. Wanvik

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Kamel, R.F. (1987). Software development in a distributed environment: The XMS system. In: Conradi, R., Didriksen, T.M., Wanvik, D.H. (eds) Advanced Programming Environments. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17189-4_94

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