Component Coordination in GLoo

Incorporating components from a number of different sources into a given application is generally considered to be a non-trivial activity. Over the years, various coordination mechanisms have been proposed to tackle this problem. However, even today, the question remains how to best link these coordination mechanisms with an underlying programming paradigm without loosing flexibility. A suitable technique to address this issue is language composition, enabling us to “fine-tune” a programming language on demand. In this compositional approach, we can add new features to the language as we go, within user-defined regions, and without polluting the underlying paradigm as a whole. To test the effectiveness of this technique, we explore a small stream processing framework and its corresponding tion abstractions in this paper. More precisely, we report on our insights into using GLOO, a functional composition language, for the definition of extensible coordination ions that, through...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ASWEC
• Authors: Jean-Guy Schneider, Markus Lumpe
• Keywords: ASWEC 2009, Coordination Mechanisms, Functional Composition Language, Software Engineering, Various Coordination Mechanisms