Distributed Open Interworking in Software Engineering Environments

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Boutaba, Raouf^{a; *} | Foughali, Karim^b

Affiliations: [a] PRISM Laboratoire/CNRS 818, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines 45, Avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles Cedex, France | [b] MASI Laboratoire/CNRS 818, Institut Blaise Pascal. Université Pierre & Marie Curie, 4, Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Correspondence: [*] Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed.

Abstract: There is a wide-spread belief that the general development of software engineering environments is being hampered by the lack of integration models to allow efficient inter-tool communications and software reusability. This paper presents a distributed open platform to support tools interworking in software environments. It focuses on the two key requirements for interworking that are: tools interfaces specification based on service signatures and an inter-tool communication protocol based on message passing. Furthermore, the same approach applies for providing interworking between tools belonging to different software environments supported by means of a federation of platforms.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1996-3303

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 178-198, 1996