Design and implementation issues for distributed CCA framework interoperability

Component frameworks, including those that support the Common Component Architecture (CCA), represent a promising approach to addressing this challenge, one that is being realized, for example, in our LegionCCA and XCATC++ frameworks. The next step beyond building independent individual frameworks is making them interoperate. Component-based applications should be able to transparently span multiple disjoint component frameworks with low overhead as compared to the same applications running within a single framework. Interoperable frameworks enable applications to take advantage of more resources, and to better match constituent parts to the underlying resources that best support them. The CCA specification does not prescribe a wire format for inter-component calls in distributed frameworks, thereby promoting considerable flexibility and customization for the framework developer. This approach thus requires an additional specific strategy outside of the CCA to support interoperabil...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: CONCURRENCY
• Authors: Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael J. Lewis, Kenneth Chiu
• Keywords: Common Component Architecture, CONCURRENCY 2007, Independent Individual Frameworks, Interoperability