Distributed Asynchronous Collections: Abstractions for Publish/Subscribe Interaction

ions for Publish/Subscribe Interaction Patrick Th. Eugster1 , Rachid Guerraoui1 , and Joe Sventek2 1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne 2 Agilent Laboratories Scotland, Edinburgh Publish/subscribe is considered one of the most important interaction styles for the explosive market of enterprise application integration. Producers publish information on a software bus and consumers subscribe to the information they want to receive from that bus. The decoupling nature of the interaction between the publishers and the subscribers is not only important for enterprise computing products but also for many emerging e-commerce and telecommunication applications. It is often claimed that object-orientation is inherently incompatible with the publish/subscribe interaction style. This flawed argument is due to the persistent confusion between object-orientation as a modeling discipline and the specific request/reply mechanism promoted by CORBA-like middleware systems. This paper desc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ECOOP
• Authors: Patrick Th. Eugster, Rachid Guerraoui, Joe Sventek
• Keywords: ECOOP 2000, Interaction Styles, Programming Languages, Publish/subscribe Interaction, Publish/subscribe Interaction Styles