This paper was presented at TOOLS Europe 96, Paris, France, February 1996.
Abstract: Traditionally, distributed object-oriented applications are based on a static approach where each application knows, at compilation time, all object types which could be used. This paper presents an approach to the construction of a new type of object-oriented application over large scale distributed systems that we call a "generic" application. These applications use objects dynamically without prior knowledge of the object types at compilation time. We present two tools based on this approach: CorbaScript, a generic object shell interpreter and CorbaWeb, a generic object browser based on WWW technology. These tools are implemented via the Dynamic Invocation Interface and the Interface Repository from CORBA.
These slides was presented at the panel on Distributed Object Technology and the Web at the Fifth International World-Wide Web Conference , Paris, France, May 1996.
This paper was presented at the
Fifth International World-Wide Web Conference
,
Paris, France, May 1996.
Here, the slides presented at the conference.
Abstract:
The World Wide Web and Distributed Object-Oriented Systems (e.g. CORBA)
provide future infrastructures for distributed client/server computing.
This paper presents our work to provide the integration of CORBA objects into the Web:
first, to describe Web services using object-oriented technologies
and second to access any Information System developed with CORBA from the Web.
We present a new Shared Information Space model with the following issues:
Object Orientation Design,
Distributed and Heterogeneous Environment,
Users' Point of View,
Object Invocation and Navigation.
Navigation over SIS is supported by CorbaWeb, a Generic Object Navigator,
composed of metascripts allowing the access, the representation and the invocation
of any CORBA object from the Web.
These operations are achieved by scripts written in CorbaScript,
an interpreted scripting language which can dynamically invoke any CORBA objects.
This paper was presented at the INFORSID'96 Conference, Bordeaux, France, June 1996.
Authors: Philippe Merle, Jean-Jacques Vandewalle and Eric Dufresne.
Abstract: The emergence of worldwide heterogeneous systems raises new needs for integration. This paper proposes a global architecture of integration for three information systems plateforms: World Wide Web, smart cards and Corba distributed objects. The federative aspect of our proposal is brought by WWW. This approach has been validated by the integration of an healthcare smart card application into WWW and Corba architecture using a generic CorbaWeb object browser and a card object adapter.
This paper was presented at the W3C-OMG Workshop on Distributed Objects
and Mobile Code, Boston, USA, June 1996.
postscript version
This paper was presented at the 2th COOTS, Workshop on Distributed Object Computing on the Internet, Toronto, Canada, June 1996.
This paper was presented at the ECOOP'96 Workshop, Putting Distributed Objects to Work , Linz, Austria, July 8-12, 1996.
Authors: Philippe Merle, Christophe Gransart and Jean-Marc Geib.
Abstract: The future of distributed client/server computing will consist of the WWW and Corba environments. First, the WWW is the user-friendly uniform interface to access any distributed resource. Second, Corba is a single uniform object-oriented view of distributed and heterogeneous systems integration. Then these two worlds need to merge to make distributed objects user-friendly. This paper first presents Corba and our Generic Object-Oriented Dynamic Environment, second it discusses the interests of a generic environment and introduces our scripting language CorbaScript, and finally presents CorbaWeb as an integration tool between the WWW and Corba worlds.
Keywords: Corba objects, Generic Object-Oriented Dynamic Environment, Scripting Language, Objects in the World Wide Web.
This paper was presented at the Journée de Recherche sur la Conception de Systè&mes Adaptatifs et Spécialisables JRCSAS'97, IRISA, Rennes, France, 15 April 1997.
Authors: Philippe Merle, Christophe Gransart and Jean-Marc Geib.
This paper was presented at the
ECOOP'97 Workshop,
CORBA : Implementation, Use, and Evaluation
,
Jyväskyä, Finland, 9 - 13 June 1997.
Click here to obtain the presented slides.
Authors: Philippe Merle, Christophe Gransart and Jean-Marc Geib.
Abstract: This paper first presents Corba and our Generic Object-Oriented Dynamic Environment, second it discusses the interests of a generic environment and introduces our scripting language CorbaScript, and finally presents CorbaWeb as an integration tool between the WWW and Corba worlds.
Keywords: Corba objects, Generic Object-Oriented Dynamic Environment, Scripting Language, Objects in the World Wide Web.
merle@lifl.fr