Arcadia Papers: ABSTRACT
"An Event-Based Software Integration Framework",
by Daniel J. Barrett, Lori A. Clarke, Peri L. Tarr, and Alexander E. Wise
in Technical Report 94-047,
Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1994.
Abstract
Although event-based software integration is one of the most prevalent
approaches to loose integration, no consistent model for describing it
exists. As a result, there is no uniform way to discuss event-based
integration, compare approaches and implementations, specify new event-based
approaches, match user requirements with the capabilities of event-based
integration products, and so on. We attempt to address these shortcomings
by specifying a generic, event-based integration framework that provides
a flexible model for discussing and comparing event-based integration
approaches. This model supports dynamic and static specification, composition
and decomposition, and can be instantiated to describe the features of
most common event-based integration approaches. To demonstrate this,
mappings to several popular products are presented.
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