The Design of the tao real-time object request broker：（道的设计实时对象请求代理）.pdfVIP

The Design of the TAO Real-Time Object Request Broker Douglas C. Schmidt, David L. Levine, and Sumedh Mungee schmidt,levine,sumedh
@ Department of Computer Science, Washington University St. Louis, MO 63130, USA January 18, 1999 This article appeared in Computer Communications, El- systems command and control systems, multimedia systems, sivier Science, Volume 21, No 4, April, 1998. and simulations. In addition to requiring QoS guarantees, distributed appli- cations must be flexible and reusable. Flexibility is needed to Abstract respond rapidly to evolving functional and QoS requirements Many real-time application domains can benefit fr om fle x- of distributed applications. Reusability is needed to yield sub- ible and open distributed architectures, such as those de- stantial improvements in productivity and to enhance the qual- fined by the CORBA specification. CORBA is an architec- ity, performance, reliability, and interoperability of distributed ture for distributed object computing being standardized by application software. the OMG. Although CORBA is well-suitedfor conventional re- The Common Object Request Broker Architecture quest/response applications, CORBA implementations are not (CORBA) [1] is an emerging standard for distributed object yet suitedfor real-time