Abstract
With the increase of automatically sensed and generated data in distributed software systems, the publish/subscribe paradigm gains importance. Automatically generated notifications are pushed from their publishers to interested subscribers. Interoperability is a core issue in such federated networked distributed applications. However, the problems of heterogeneity must be reconsidered in the light of tougher conditions than previously: low latency delivery in addition to expressiveness and extensibility.
To aid in engineering federated distributed systems, this paper proposes a framework for object transformations. Components can operate in individual, semantic contexts, which include local type declarations, fine-grained transformation rules (t-rules), and type mappings that express the programmer’s intent at a high level. Our generic approach supports transformations at any granularity using clear priorities to select among complementary t-rules.
We present empirical evidence of the efficiency of our approach and of the benefits to the programmer in terms of code quality.
Funded in part by US NSF grants # 0644013 and # 0834529, DARPA grant # N11AP20014, Alexander von Humboldt foundation, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) grants # 01IC10S01 and # 01IS12054. This work was performed within the LOEWE Priority Program Dynamo PLV (http://www.dynamo-plv.de) supported by the LOEWE research initiative of the state of Hesse/Germany. The authors assume responsibility for the content.
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Freudenreich, T., Eugster, P., Frischbier, S., Appel, S., Buchmann, A. (2013). Implementing Federated Object Systems. In: Castagna, G. (eds) ECOOP 2013 – Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7920. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39038-8_10
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