Flexible Translation for Integrating CORBA and OSI
Guy Genilloud · Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) · 1997
The OSI and the CORBA technologies for systems management can be integrated using gateways and specification translation tools. We show that automatic translation produces results which are sub-optimal with respect to questions of style, performance and even correctness. A translation designer can offer worthwhile improvements by selecting translation options, and by providing complementary information. This approach, that we call flexible translation, is compatible with a generic implementation of gateways. 1 Introduction An important trend in systems management is to provide integrated management in a uniform way: the networks, the hosts, the operating systems, the peripherals, and (more and more) the applications must be managed with the same tools, using the same paradigms. Another trend is to use a distributed objects architecture [X.703-96]: the distributed objects paradigm and technology are well adapted to support integrated management, which is implemented as a set of distri...