The Tangram DPE-a distributed processing environment in a heterogeneous CORBA 2 world
M. Khayrat Durmosch, K.-D. Engel · 2002
Describes the usage of a distributed processing environment (DPE) based on CORBA 2 with respect to distribution transparencies. We sketch a multimedia telecommunication service-T-MMCS (TINA MultiMedia Conferencing System)-based on the TINA-C (Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture Consortium) concepts and our experience with using CORBA 2 implementations-Orbix and Hewlett-Packard Distributed Smalltalk (HPDST)-as DPEs for this application. At the moment, the CORBA scene is changing very rapidly. New products are arising and interoperability between products is increasing due to corrections in the implementations. More and more CORBA services are supported. The CORBA standards are also being extended and more services are being defined. These changes are happening rapidly. Therefore, we present the newest developments that have taken place and our newest experiences.