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StarBus+: Distributed Object Middleware Practice for Internet Computing

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In the past decade, the booming of Internet challenges the middleware in three aspects: quality of service, balance of changes and stabilization, and across-Internet integration. This paper presents our work on distributed object computing middleware technology for these challenges, as well as the research and development on StarBus+, which is a CORBA standard-compliant middleware suite with the features such as object request broker supporting multi-* quality of service, component model, and integration with Web Service. This paper comprehensively presents the design and characteristics of StarBus+, and demonstrates how StarBus+ is enhanced to address the challenges of Internet computing through three case studies: inter-enterprise integration over Internet, application evolution through dynamic reconfiguration, and great massive information system building. The paper also suggests some research directions which are important for Internet computing.

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.90104020 and 90412011, the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No.G1999032703 and the National High Technology Research and Development 863 Program of China under Grants No.2001AA113020 and No. 2003AA115210.

Huai-Min Wang is a professor in Computer School at the National University of Defense Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1992. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Computers and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Dr. Wang has served as a member of the Expert Committee for Computer Software and Hardware of the National High Technology Research and Development 863 Program of China. Since 1990, he has chaired more than ten research projects under the grants of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 863 Program, and the National Basic Research 973 Program of China, etc. In 2003, he was awarded the 2nd class National Awards for Science and Technology of China. Up to now, he has published more than ninety papers and directed twenty graduate students. His research focuses on distributed object, agent technology, grid computing and network security, etc.

Yu-Feng Wang received his M.S. degree in computer science in 2002. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate of computer science at the National University of Defense Technology. His research focuses on adaptive middleware and autonomic computing.

Yang-Bin Tang received his M.S. degree in mathematics in 1999, and now is a Ph.D. candidate of computer science at the National University of Defense Technology. His research focuses on P2P computing, AMD/DAMD, etc.

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Wang, HM., Wang, YF. & Tang, YB. StarBus+: Distributed Object Middleware Practice for Internet Computing. J Comput Sci Technol 20, 542–551 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-005-0542-y

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