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Gluons: A support for software component cooperation

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Object Technologies for Advanced Software (ISOTAS 1993)

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This paper presents gluons as objects that mediate software component cooperation. We discuss the advantages of encapsulating inter-component interaction inside a set of special objects. We present the design of a hierarchy of gluon classes that provide the support for the application domain independent part of component interaction protocols. As an example, we present the design of a financial information framework and we discuss the role that gluons play in the definition of the framework.

This research was supported in part by REUTERS (EUROPE) S.A.

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  1. Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, Université de Genève, 24, rue du Général Dufour, 1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland

    Xavier Pintado

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Shojiro Nishio Akinori Yonezawa

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Pintado, X. (1993). Gluons: A support for software component cooperation. In: Nishio, S., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57342-9_65

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