A Component Coordination Model Based on Mobile Channels

In this paper we present a coordination model for component-based software systems based on the notion of mobile channels, define it in terms of a compositional trace-based semantics, and describe its implementation in the Java language. Channels allow anonymous, and point-topoint communication among components, while mobility allows dynamic reconfiguration of channel connections in a system. This model supports dynamic distributed systems where components can be mobile. It provides an efficient way of interaction among components. Furthermore, our model provides a clear separation between the computational part and the coordination part of a system, allowing the development and description of the coordination structure of a system to be done in a transparent and exogenous manner. Our description of the Java implementation of this coordination model demonstrates that it is self-contained enough for developing component-based systems in object-oriented languages. However, if desired, ou...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: FUIN
• Authors: Juan Guillen Scholten, Farhad Arbab, Frank S. de Boer, Marcello M. Bonsangue
• Keywords: Compositional Trace-based Semantics, Coordination Model, FUIN 2006, Model