A retrospective on the design of the GOPI middleware platform

This paper offers a high-level retrospective overview of the GOPI middleware platform which is the outcome of a three year project aimed at the development of generic, configurable and extensible middleware. GOPI has a clearly defined modular structure, is widely extensible with plug-ins at all levels of the architecture, and natively supports stream interactions as well as standard operation invocation. It offers a generic framework for quality of service (QoS) specification and management, and supports a high level multimedia oriented programming environment that is backwardly compatible with the OMG's CORBA. At its lower levels it supports QoS-driven resource management and features an optimised IIOP stack. Despite its enhanced functionality, GOPI's IIOP performance equals or exceeds that of state-of-the-art CORBA platforms.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: MMS
• Authors: Geoff Coulson, Shakuntala Baichoo, Oveeyen Moonian
• Keywords: GOPI Middleware Platform, Information Technology, MMS 2002, Optimised Iiop Stack, Standard Operation Invocation