Specifying Lifecycles of Object Interactions within Distributed Systems

  • Authors:
  • Petre Dini;Gregor v. Bochmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SMW '96 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Systems Management (SMW'96)
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a model of state for interface bindings, as defined by the Basic Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) recommendations concerning object interactions. To distinguish between other kinds of relationship bindings such as associations and aggregations, we call cooperation relations the interactions across object interfaces. In order to manage the configuration of distributed systems, we introduce the configuration state of a cooperation relation, and refine the lifecycle of a cooperation relation according to the value space of its configuration state. A formalization of the configuration state, and an example of self-manageable cooperation relation are presented. The identification of different kinds of cooperation relations is presented across a distributed system, currently used as an experimental platform.