An Architecture for Integrating Concurrency Control into Environment Frameworks

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Title:: An Architecture for Integrating Concurrency Control into Environment Frameworks
Author(s):: Heineman, George T.
Kaiser, Gail E.
Date:: 1994
Type:: Technical reports
Department:: Computer Science
Permanent URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12442
Series:: Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports
Part Number:: CUCS-021-94
Publisher:: Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Publisher Location:: New York
Abstract:: Research in layered and componentized systems shows the benefit of dividing the responsibility of services into separate components. It is still an unresolved issue, however, how a system can be created from a set of existing (independently developed) components. This issue of integration is of immense concern to software architects since a proper solution would reduce duplicate implementation efforts and promote component reuse. In this paper we take a step towards this goal within the domain of software development environments (SDEs) by showing how to integrate an external concurrency control component, called Pern, with environment frameworks. We discuss two experiments where we integrated Pern with Oz, a multi-site, decentralized process centered environment, and Process WEAVER, a commercial process server. We introduce an architecture for retrofitting an external concurrency control component into an environment.
Subject(s):: Computer science