Enhancing interaction support in the CORBA component model

Abstract

Even if promising with respect to software complexity management, component-based approaches, like CCM and EJB, have until now fall short in achieving their breakthrough in the real-time and embedded community. Our aim is to adapt one of these approaches - namely the CCM - to the specific needs of this area. In such a process, we have identified several crucial points, among which is interaction management. The current CCM runtime interaction support is actually poor and lacks flexibility. That is the reason why, drawing our inspiration from similar works of the ADLs field, we propose to gather all interaction-related processing in connectors. This paper details the rationale underlying our choice, and outlines all modifications needed to introduce the connector meta-element in the CCM. It also illustrates the relevance of CCM connectors in the scope of a telecommunication use case.