Enhancing O-O Middleware to Become Time-Aware

摘要

The general trend in middleware moves towards object-orientation. Implementation hiding, inheri- tance, and polymorphism are concepts, that have turned out to be well suited for the structuring of new com- plex distributed applications as well as for the integration of legacy systems. The existence of CORBA as a vendor-independent standard for object-oriented middleware has added another momentum to this development.