Descriptive-procedural configuration of communication bindings
Thorsten Kramp, Rainer Koster · 2002
Although declarative configurability still predominates in the context of communication bindings, the hidden policies involved make it an unlikely candidate to cope with the ever increasing variety of demands imposed by forthcoming application domains such as real-time multimedia. In this paper we therefore propose a policy-free descriptiveprocedural alternative for the configuration of communication bindings which provides a more fine-grained control of procedural configurability without being tied to componentspecified interfaces. 1. INTRODUCTION The success of communication middleware is leading to a number of challenges as the motivation grows to deploy middleware in ever demanding application domains with increasingly stringent requirements on the technology. Examples include real-time multimedia systems requiring quality-of-service (QoS) support and flexible resource management, as well as mobile systems requiring dynamic adaptation to changing connectivity. As a consequence, ...