OpenORB
Project Dates
1997 to 2001
Project Description
OpenORB identified that the role of middleware must do more than act as a unified programming model to application writers, and mask out problems of heterogeneity and distribution. OpenORB investigated new approaches to the design and implementation of middleware platforms in terms of i) being able to configure the underlying support offered by the platform, and ii) being able to reconfigure this support should initial assumptions change (e.g. as is often the case in mobile computing).
Two key results from the OpenORB project were the OpenORB philopsy and the OpenCOM component platform that are well documented on this website. The OpenORB project was funded by both the EPSRC, BT Labs and France Telecom. The motivation of the project
Selected Publications
- Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Andersen, A., Blair, L., Clarke, M., Costa, F., Duran-Limon, H., Fitzpatrick, T., Johnston, L., Moreira, R., Parlavantzas, N., Saikoski, K., "The Design and Implementation of OpenORB v2", IEEE DS Online, Special Issue on Reflective Middleware, Vol. 2, No. 6, 2001.
- Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Blair, L., Duran-Limon, H., Grace, P., Moreira, R., Parlavantzas, N., "Reflection, Self-Awareness and Self-Healing", In Proceedings of Workshop on Self-Healing Systems (WOSS'02), pp 9-14, Charleston, SC, November 2002.
- Clarke, M., Blair, G.S., Coulson, G., Parlavantzas, N., "An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware", Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms (Middleware'01), Heidelberg, November 2001.
Project Web Site
Investigators
- Gordon Blair
- Geoff Coulson
- Lynne Blair
- Lee Johnston
- Fabio Costa
- Hector Duran-Limon
- Tom Fitzpatrick
- Anders Andersen
- Rui Moreira
- Katia Saikoski
- Mike Clarke
Principal Contact
Gordon Blair (
Email:gordon - add @comp.lancs.ac.uk)