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This paper presents the current state of the DOMAINS Management Language (DML) which was in its first version developed in the ESPRIT project DOMAINS and enhanced thereafter. DML is an extension of the ISO standard GDMO offering a formal and executable behaviour. The language features, the corresponding compiler and the embedding management architecture are explained. In addition, experiences gained with employing DML for non-trivial applications is reported on. Although DML has not yet reached full maturity, it is a very useful tool that successfully assists application developers. The approach of combining a specification language with an implementation language proved to be very helpful: It allowed to use already standardised GDMO specifications and to convert them into executable programs with relatively little programming effort.
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B. Fink received in 1967 a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany. Her key activities are architectures and computer languages.
H. Dercks graduated in computer science from the Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany in 1978. He is specialist in systems engineering and compiler development.
P. Besting holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Physics from University Bonn. His main interest is application creation and transmission and switching technologies.
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Fink, B., Dercks, H., Besting, P. (1995). Management Application Creation with DML. In: Sethi, A.S., Raynaud, Y., Faure-Vincent, F. (eds) Integrated Network Management IV. IM 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_53
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