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-
- The OOD slides do NOT cover OMT. Some material is used from Booch's
- OOD book, but not the notation. From looking at the slides, it appears
- very easy to insert your own notation. The important part for students
- is communicating the concepts, which (for the price) these slides do
- a DAMN good job of. <- (Safire's Violation #45: "A perposition is a
- bad thing to end a sentence with." :-)
-
- Ah, but WHERE on WUArchive are they? If you look under
- languages/ada/crsware, I believe you'll find them. Good luck!
-
- dgw
- --
- type My_Disclaimer is new Standard.Disclaimer with record
- AJPO, SEI : Cognizance := Disavow_All_Knowledge;
- end record;--)
-
-
- >52 GTE Distrib Reports
-
- From: em02@gte.com (Emon)
- Subject: Reports Available From The Distributed Object Computing Department
- Date: 5 Nov 93 18:10:15 GMT
- Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
-
- REPORTS AVAILABLE FROM
- THE DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING DEPARTMENT
- GTE LABORATORIES INCORPORATED
- 40 Sylvan Road, M/S 62
- Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
-
-
- For over six years, the primary focus of the Distributed Object Computing
- Department within GTE Laboratories has been the Distributed Object
- Management (DOM) project. The DOM project conducts research into
- object-oriented technology for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous,
- distributed (HAD) computer systems/resources. Major research areas include:
- interoperable object models; interoperable, distributed object
- architectures; heterogeneous, extended transaction models; and information
- requests in HAD environments. We are experimenting in these areas using our
- prototype DOM system which we have developed over the past five years. This
- technology is based on ideas from a number of technical areas including
- distributed, object-oriented, databases, multi-database systems, operating
- systems, and programming languages.
-
- Permission is granted at this time for the operations and uses listed
- below. However, this permission is non-transferable and is subject to
- revocation on a report-by-report basis, due to possible copyright transfers
- that are normal in the publication process. Any additional copyright
- restrictions are noted in the reports themselves. Default permissions are
- for anonymous ftp, electronic viewing, and single-copy printing.
- Permissible uses are research and browsing. Specifically prohibited are
- SALES of any copy, whether electronic or hardcopy, of any of these reports
- for any purpose. Also prohibited is copying, excerpting or extensive
- quoting of any report in another work without the written permission of one
- of the report's authors.
-
- Reports marked with a "*" can be retrieved in postscript(ascii) form via
- anonymous ftp from ftp.gte.com (132.197.8.2) in the "pub/dom" subdirectory.
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1994
-
- [GEOR94a]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and W. Litwin,
- "Chronological Scheduling of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies," to
- appear in the VLDB journal, January 1994 (submitted in December 1990).
-
- [GEOR94b]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, P. Krychniak, and F. Manola,
- "Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in a Programmable
- Transaction Environment," to appear in the Proceedings of the 10th
- International Conference on Data Engineering, Houston, Texas, February
- 1994. Also published as TC-0207-02-93-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated,
- February 1993.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1993
-
- [BROD93a]* Brodie, M.L., "The Promise of Distributed Computing and the
- Challenge of Legacy Information Systems," in Hsiao, D., E.J. Neuhold, and
- R. Sacks-Davis (eds), Proc. IFIP TC2/WG2.6 Conference on Semantics of
- Interoperable Database Systems, Lorne, Australia, November 1992, Elsevier
- North Holland, Amsterdam 1993.
-
- [BROD93b]* Brodie, M.L. and M. Stonebraker, "DARWIN: On the Incremental
- Migration of Legacy Information Systems," DOM Technical Report,
- TR-0222-10-92-165, GTE Laboratories Inc., March 1993.
-
- [GEOR93a]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, and P. Krychniak, "An
- Environment for Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in
- DOMS," to appear in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on
- Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 1993.
-
- [GEOR93c]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz and A. Sheth, "Using
- Ticket-based Methods to Enforce the Serializability of Multidatabase
- Transactions," to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge
- Engineering December 1993 (submitted in February 1992).
-
- [GEOR93e]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Hornick, F. Manola, M. Brodie, S.
- Heiler, F. Nayeri, and B. Hurwitz, "An Extended Transaction Environment for
- Workflows in Distributed Object Computing," in IEEE Data Engineering, pp.
- 24-27, vol. 16, no. 2, June 1993.
-
- [MANO93a] Manola, F., "The Need for Object Model Interoperability,"
- Workshop Report, Workshop on Application Integration Architectures, Dallas,
- Texas, February 1993
-
- [MANO93c]* Manola, F. and S. Heiler, "A 'RISC' Object Model for Object
- System Interoperation: Concepts and Applications," TR-0231-08-93-165, GTE
- Laboratories, Inc., August 1993.
-
- [MITC93a] Mitchell, G., "Extensible Query Processing in an
- Object-Oriented Database," PhD Thesis, Brown University Technical Report
- No. CS-93-16, May 1993. Available in hard copy from Brown University,
- Computer Science Department, and postscript format via anonymous ftp from
- wilma.cs.brown.edu as file techreports/93/cs93-16.ps.Z
-
- [NAYE93c]* Nayeri, F., and B. Hurwitz, "Experiments with Dispatching in a
- Distributed Object System," GTE Laboratories, Inc., TR-0236-09-93-165, July
- 1993.
-
- [NAYE93d]* Nayeri, F., "Addressing Component Interoperability in the OMG
- Object Model," position paper submitted to ORB Implementors' Workshop, San
- Francisco, June 1993.
-
- [NICO93a] Nicol, J., T. Wilkes, and F. Manola, "Object Orientation in
- Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems," IEEE Computer, pp. 57-67,
- Vol. 26, No.6, June 1993.
-
- [VENT93]* Ventrone, V. and S. Heiler, "Some Practical Advice for Dealing
- with Semantic Heterogeneity in Federated Database Systems," Submitted to
- USENIX.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1992
-
- [BGR92]* Batra, R., D. Georgakopoulos, and M. Rusinkiewicz, "A
- Decentralized Deadlock-free Concurrency Control Method for Multidatabase
- Transactions," in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on
- Distributed Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, June, 1992.
-
- [BRO92b]* Brodie, M.L. and J. Mylopoulos , "Artificial Intelligence and
- Databases: Dawn, Midday, or Sunset?," Canadian Information Processing
- /Informatique Canadienne, July/August 1992.
-
- [BROD92c]* Brodie, M.L. and S. Ceri, "On Intelligent and Cooperative
- Information Systems," in International Journal of Intelligent and
- Cooperative Information Systems 1, 2 September 1992.
-
- [BUCH92] Buchmann, A.P., M.T. Ozsu, M. Hornick, D. Georgakopoulos, F.A.
- Manola, "A Transaction Model for Active Distributed Object Systems," in
- Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications, A.K. Elmagarmid,
- (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, Spring 1992.
-
- [GEOR92]* Georgakopoulos, D., "A Framework for Dynamic Specification of
- Extended Multidatabase Transactions and Interdatabase Dependencies,"
- Proceedings of Third Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic
- Interoperability, Boulder, February, 1992.
-
- [HEIL92] Heiler, S., S. Haradhvala, B. Blaustein, A. Rosenthal, and S.
- Zdonik, "A Flexible Framework for Transaction Management in Engineering
- Environments," in Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications,
- A.K. Elmagarmid (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, Spring 1992.
-
- [MANO92]* Manola, F., S. Heiler, D. Georgakopoulos, M. Hornick, M.
- Brodie, "Distributed Object Management," International Journal of
- Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems 1, 1 March 1992.
-
- [MANO92a]* Manola, F. and S. Heiler, "An Approach To Interoperable Object
- Models," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Distributed Object
- Management, Edmonton, Canada, August 1992 (also in Distributed Object
- Management, M.T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez (eds.), Morgan Kaufmann,
- San Mateo, CA, 1993).
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1991
-
- [BROD91] Brodie, M., "Distributed Object Management Research,"
- Proceedings of the Second Telecommunications Information Networking
- Architecture (TINA) Workshop, pp. 297-303, Chantilly, France, March 1991.
-
- [BROD91a]* Brodie, M. and M. Hornick, "An Interoperability Development
- Environment For Intelligent Information Systems," Proceedings of the
- International Workshop on the Development of Intelligent Information
- Systems, Niagara-on-the-Lake, April 1991.
-
- [BUCH91]* Buchmann, A.P., M. Tamer Ozsu, and D. Georgakopoulos, "Towards
- a Transaction Management System for DOM," TR-0146-06-91-165, GTE
- Laboratories Incorporated, June 1991.
-
- [GEOR91a]* Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and A. Sheth, "On
- Serializability of Multidatabase Transactions Through Forced Local
- Conflicts," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data
- Engineering, Kobe, Japan, April 1991.
-
- [GEOR91b]* Georgakopoulos, D., "Multidatabase Recoverability and
- Recovery," Proceedings of the First International Workshop on
- Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, Kyoto, Japan, April 1991.
-
- [GRL91] Georgakopoulos, D., M. Rusinkiewicz, and W. Litwin,
- "Chronological Scheduling of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies," in
- the VLDB journal, available draft also as a Technical Report from the
- Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston, UH-CS-91-03,
- February, 1991.
-
- [HEIL91]* Heiler, S., "Extended Data Type Support in Distributed DBMS
- Products: A Technology Assessment and Forecast," TR-170-12-91-165. GTE
- Laboratories Incorporated, December 1991.
-
- [HORN91]* Hornick, M.F., J.D. Morrison, and F. Nayeri, "Integrating
- Heterogeneous, Autonomous, Distributed Applications Using the DOM
- Prototype," TR-0174-12-91-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
- 1991.
-
- [MANO91] Manola, F. and U. Dayal, "An Overview of PDM: An Object-Oriented
- Data Model," in K.R. Dittrich, U. Dayal, and A.P. Buchmann (eds.), On
- Object-Oriented Database Systems, Springer-Verlag, 1991.
-
- [MANO91a]* Manola, F., "Object Data Language Facilities for Multimedia
- Data Types," TR-0169-12-91-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
- 1991.
-
- [MANO91b] Manola, F., "The Third-Generation/OODBMS Manifesto, Commercial
- Version," SIGMOD Record, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1991.
-
- [RUSI91] Rusinkiewicz, M. and D. Georgakopoulos, "Multidatabase
- Transactions: Impediments and Opportunities," Compcon Spring '91 Digest of
- Papers, San Francisco, February 1991.
-
- [VENT91] Ventrone, V. and S. Heiler, "Semantic Heterogeneity as a Result
- of Domain Evaluation," SIGMOD Record Special Issue: Semantic Issues in
- Multidatabase Systems, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1991.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1990
-
- [BREI90] Breitbart, Y., D. Georgakopoulos, and M. Rusinkiewicz, A.
- Silberschatz, "Rigorous Scheduling in Multidatabase Systems," Proceedings
- of Workshop in Multidatabases and Semantic Interoperability, Tulsa, pp.
- 658-667, November 1990.
-
- [BROD90]* Brodie, M.L., F. Bancilhon, C. Harris, M. Kifer, Y. Masunaga,
- E.D. Sacerdoti, K. Tanaka, "Next Generation Database Management Systems
- Technology," in Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases, W. Kim, J-M
- Nicolas, S. Nishio, (eds.), Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990.
-
- [HEIL90] Heiler, S., F. Manola and S. Zdonik, "An Object-Oriented
- Database Approach to Federated Systems," (unpublished paper), 1990.
-
- [MANO90] Manola, F., "Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases," AI Expert, 5(3),
- 5(4), March and April 1990.
-
- [MANO90a]* Manola, F. and A. Buchmann "A Functional/Relational
- Object-Oriented Model for Distributed Object Management: Preliminary
- Description" TM-0331-11-90-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December
- 1990.
-
- [MANO90b]* Manola, F., M. Hornick, and A. Buchmann "Object Data Model
- Facilities for Multimedia Data Types" TM-0332-11-90-165, GTE Laboratories
- Incorporated, December 1990.
-
- [MYLO90]* Mylopoulos, J. and M. Brodie, "Knowledge Bases and Databases:
- Current Trends and Future Directions," Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
- Vol. 474: Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence: Integration
- Aspects, D. Karagiannia, (ed.), Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.
-
- [RUSI90] Rusinkiewicz, M., D. Georgakopoulos, and R. Thomas, "RDS: A
- Primitive for the Maintenance of Replicated Data Objects," Proceedings of
- Second IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, pp.
- 658-667, December 1990.
-
- [SILB90] Silberschatz, A., M. Stonebraker, and J.D. Ullman (eds.), M.L.
- Brodie, P. Buneman, M. Carey, A. Chandra, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Gray, R.
- Fagin, D. Lomet, D. Maier, M.A. Niemat, A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, I.
- Traiger, J. Ullman, G. Wiederhold, C. Zaniolo, and M. Zemankova, P.A.
- Bernstein, W. Kim, H.F. Korth, and A. van Tilborg, (co-authors), "Database
- Systems: Achievements and Opportunities," ACM SIGMOD Record, 19, 4,
- December 1990; also appeared in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 34, No.10,
- pp. 110-120, October 1991.
-
- [STON90] Stonebraker, M. , L.A. Rowe, B. Lindsay, J. Gray, M. Carey, M.L.
- Brodie, P. Bernstein, and D. Beech, "Third-Generation Data Base System
- Manifesto," ACM SIGMOD Recored 19, 3, September 1990.
-
- [ZERT90] Zertuche, D.R. and A.P. Buchmann, "Execution Models for Active
- Database Systems: A Comparison," TM-0238-01-90-165, GTE Laboratories
- Incorporated, January 1990.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1989
-
- [BROD89] Brodie, M., D. Bobrow, V. Lesser, S. Madnick, D. Tsichritzis,
- and C. Hewitt, "Future Artificial Intelligence Requirements for Intelligent
- Database Systems" Expert Database Systems: Proceedings From the Second
- International Conference, L. Kerschberg (ed.), Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo
- Park, CA, 1989.
-
- [BROD89a] Brodie, M. , J. Mylopoulos, "Future Intelligent Information
- Systems: AI and Database Technologies Working Together," in M. Brodie, J.
- Mylopoulos, (eds. and contributors), Readings in Artificial Intelligence
- and Databases, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989.
-
- [MANO89]* Manola, F., "Applications of Object-Oriented Database
- Technology in Knowledge-Based Integrated Information Systems," GTE
- Laboratories Incorporated, April 1989.
-
- [MANO89a]* Manola, F., "Object Model Capabilities For Distributed Object
- Management," TM-0149-06-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, June 1989.
-
- [MANO89b]* Manola, F., "An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS
- Developments," TR-0066-10-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, October
- 1989.
-
- [WELC89] Welch, J.L. and A.P. Sistla, "Object-Based Concurrency Control
- and Recovery Mechanisms," TM-0150-06-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated,
- June 1989.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1988
-
- [MANO88]* Manola, F., "Distributed Object Management Technology,"
- TM-0014-06-88-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, June 1988.
-
-
- >>>>>>>>> 1987
-
- [MANO87] Manola, F., "A Personal View of DBMS Security," Database
- Security: Status and Prospects, C.E. Landwehr (ed.), Elsevier Science
- Publishers B.V., North Holland, 1988, 23-34; TN CS1.1, GTE Laboratories
- Incorporated, December 1987.
-
-
-
- _[GEOR94a]* _[GEOR94b]*
- _[BROD93a]* _[BROD93b]* _[GEOR93a]* _[GEOR93c]* _[GEOR93e]*
- _[MANO93a] _[MANO93c]* _[NAYE93c]* _[NAYE93d]* _[NICO93a]
- _[VENT93]*
- _[BGR92] _[BRO92b]* _[BROD92c]* _[BUCH92] _[GEOR92]*
- _[HEIL92] _[MANO92]* _[MANO92a]*
- _[BROD91] _[BROD91a]* _[BUCH91]* _[GEOR91a]* _[GEOR91b]*
- _[GRL91] _[HEIL91]* _[HORN91]* _[MANO91] _[MANO91a]*
- _[MANO91b] _[RUSI91] _[VENT91]
- _[BREI90] _[BROD90]* _[HEIL90] _[MANO90] _[MANO90a]*
- _[MANO90b]* _[MYLO90]* _[RUSI90] _[SILB90] _[STON90]
- _[ZERT90]
- _[BROD89] _[BROD89a] _[MANO89]* _[MANO89a]* _[MANO89b]*
- _[WELC89]
- _[MANO88]*
- _[MANO87]
-
-
- >53 KEOBJ, OO DSP micro-kernel
-
- From: clb@softia.com (Chris Bidaut)
- Subject: Object kernel for DSP & RISC processors
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1993 22:48:46
- Organization: Softia, Inc.
-
- This is an announcement for KEOBJ, an object-oriented micro-kernel for Digital
- Signal Processors (DSP) and RISC processors. This is also a request for
- comments from the Internet community. Feedback on the architecture and
- programming interface will be appreciated and incorporated into the next
- release.
-
-
- 1 DESCRIPTION
- -------------
-
- KEOBJ is an object-oriented micro-kernel optimized for advanced embedded
- applications, and it particularly targets Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
- and RISC processors in multimedia environments.
-
- Its main features are object-orientation, real-time behavior, signal processing
- support, micro-kernel architecture and scalability.
-
- 1.1 Object-orientation
-
- The kernel is a collection of system classes exported to the applications
- (e.g Process, Thread, Memory, ...).
- An object name space provides a way to locate any public object (e.g. IPC,
- memory) using a symbolic path.
- The kernel is written in C++ and is easily portable.
-
- 1.2 Real-time behavior
-
- The design stresses fast response time and predictability to qualify for the
- real-time label. The kernel is reentrant and preeemptable.
-
- 1.3 Signal processing support
-
- Besides providing an architecture appropriate for most general purpose
- applications, the kernel incorporates dedicated features for signal processing
- applications. This includes two phases interrupt processing, time-deadline
- scheduling, Inter Process Communications, multiple memory pools, awareness of
- the constraints due to a single data type (word).
-
- 1.4 Micro-kernel architecture
-
- Probably the most important feature of the kernel is the ability to be
- extended at run-time with new services such as devices drivers, public
- classes (IPC, file systems, windowing systems). Applications and system
- services are dynamically loaded by a COFF compatible loader.
-
- The core kernel is customizable at run-time through a personality mechanism
- to emulate other environments (Operating systems) or to tailor the processes
- environments.
-
- 1.5 Scalability
-
- The API supports physical and virtual memory organizations with the same
- semantics.
-
- Applications source code will be portable across DSP and RISC processors.
-
- The architecture supports symmetric multiprocessing and distribution (Available
- by mid-1994).
-
-
- 2 WHERE TO FIND THE PACKAGE
- ---------------------------
-
- A set of documentation about KEOBJ is available via anonymous ftp on the
- following Internet server:
- netcom.com (192.100.81.100) in file /pub/softia/keobj.zip
-
-
- If you do not have access to Internet, contact me for other delivery media at:
- Chris Bidaut clb@softia.com
- Telephone (408) 262-6520 Fax (408) 262-7210
-
-
- >54 MindFrame for Windows
-
- From: gcl@netcom.com (Geoff Lee)
- Subject: "MindFrame for Windows" (freeware) application is available for ftp
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 21:07:28 GMT
-
- MindFrame for Windows 1.0 Release Note
- ======================================
-
- mndframe.zip (MindFrame for Windows) is available for anonymous ftp
- on ftp.cica.indiana.edu. It is currently in /pub/pc/win3/uploads.
-
- "MindFrame for Windows" is a freeware application developed to
- teach an object modeling approach presented in the
- book: "Object-Oriented GUI Application Development" Geoff Lee,
- Prentice-Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-363086-2.
-
- This application is useful in many other areas as well, for
- example, in Bible studying (metaphors, parables, prophecies,
- types), neural modeling, ecological modeling, and task modeling.
- There are 20 sample applications covering these areas. There
- are also description of each of the sample application in the
- on-line Help. Read "About MindFrame..." help topic for more
- information.
-
- This is a copyrighted software, but you can freely redistribute if
- you keep the release intact.
-
- The following is the content of mdnframe.txt file in the .zip file:
-
- 1. Installation Procedure:
- DOS> mkdir MndFrame
- DOS> cd MndFrame
- DOS> copy b:MndFrame.zip (or where you kept the mndframe.zip file)
- DOS> unzip -d mndframe.zip (extract files into subdirectories)
- DOS> copy grid.vbx \windows\systems (your local Windows system directory)
-
- 2. Running the application:
- . In Windows, open your "File Manager"
- . Go to \MndFrame directory
- . Find the MndFrame.exe file
- . Drag the MndFrame.exe file icon into a "Program Manager" window
- . Open the MndFrame.exe program
-
- 3. Sample applications:
- Once you are in the MindFrame application, open files in the
- \MndFrame\Samples subdirectories. There are 20 sample files organized
- according to areas of application (e.g., object modeling, neural
- modeling, bible studying). You can also find description of each of
- these samples in the On-Line Help file.
-
- 4. On-line help:
- Use the "About MindFrame..." menu item in the "Help" menu to learn more
- about this application. There is an on-line help provided for this
- application. Read through the help topics to learn about using this
- application.
-
- 5. Files in this release:
- mndframe.txt: this file.
- mdnframe.exe: the executable file of "MindFrame for Windows" freeware.
- mndframe.hlp: the on-line help file for "MindFrame for Windows".
- biblnote.ps: the PostScript file of help text on using this application
- to study metaphors, parables, types, and prophecies in the
- Holy Bible.
- grid.vbx: the visual basic grid control that is necessary to run this
- application. It must be copied into your local "system"
- directory for Windows (\windows\system in most cases).
- samples\*: in this directory, there are 20 samples (*.frm files) in
- the subdirectories for each application area
- (e.g., objmodel, ecology, neural, parable).
-
- New MindFrame anonymous FTP Directory:
-
- It has been moved to a more permanent directory: /pub/pc/win3/programr.
-
- >55 ACE Lib, C++ Networking
-
- From: schmidt@liege.ics.uci.edu (Douglas C. Schmidt)
- Subject: Re: C++ and Semaphores
- Date: 22 Nov 1993 19:27:00 -0800
- Organization: University of California at Irvine: ICS Dept.
-
- THE "ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT" (ACE) LIBRARY:
-
- A Collection of C++ Network Programming Components
- --------------------------------------------------
-
- The ACE library is available for anonymous ftp from the
- ics.uci.edu (128.195.1.1) host in the gnu/C++_wrappers.tar.Z file
- (approximately .4 meg compressed). This release contains contains the
- source code, documentation, and example test drivers for a number of
- C++ wrapper libraries and higher-level network programming foundation
- classes developed as part of the ADAPTIVE transport system project at
- the University of California, Irvine.
-
- . The C++ wrappers encapsulate many of the user-level BSD and
- System V Release 4 IPC facilities such as sockets, TLI,
- select and poll, named pipes and STREAM pipes, the mmap
- family of memory-mapped file commands, System V IPC (i.e.,
- shared memory, semaphores, message queues), and explicit
- dynamic linking (e.g., dlopen/dlsym/dlclose) using
- type-secure, object-oriented interfaces.
-
- . The higher-level network programming foundation classes
- integrate and enhance the lower-level C++ wrappers to
- support the configuration of concurrent network daemons
- composed of monolithic and/or stackable services
-
- Many of the C++ wrappers and higher-level components have been
- described in issues of the C++ Report, as well as in the proceedings
- of (1) the 2nd Annual C++ World conference held in Dallas, Texas in
- October, 1993, (2) the 11th Annual Sun Users Group Conference held in
- San Jose, CA in December, 1993, and (3) the 2nd International Workshop
- on Configurable Distributed Systems held at CMU in Pittsburgh, PA in
- March, 1994. A relatively complete set of documentation and extensive
- examples are included in the release. A mailing list is available for
- discussing bug fixes, enhancements, and porting issues regarding ACE.
- Please send mail to ace-users-request@ics.uci.edu if you'd like to
- become part of the mailing list.
-
- CONTENTS OF THE RELEASE
-
- The following subdirectories are included in this release:
-
- . apps -- complete applications written using the ACE wrappers
- . bin -- utility programs for building this release such as g++dep
- . build -- a separate subdirectory that keeps links into the main
- source tree in order to facilitate multi-platform
- build-schemes
- . include -- symbolic links to the include files for the release
- . lib -- object archive libraries for each C++ wrapper library
- . libsrc -- the source code for the following C++ wrappers:
- ASX -- higher-level C++ network programming foundation classes
- Get_Opt -- a C++ version of the UNIX getopt utility
- IPC_SAP -- wrapper for BSD sockets
- IPC_SAP_FIFO -- wrapper for FIFOS (named pipes)
- IPC_SAP_SPIPE -- wrapper for SVR4 STREAM pipes and connld
- Log_Msg -- library API for a local/remote logging facility
- Mem_Map -- wrapper for BSD mmap() memory mapped files
- Message_Queues -- wrapper for SysV message queues
- Reactor -- wrapper for select() and poll()
- Semaphores -- wrapper for SysV semaphores
- Server_Daemon -- a wrapper for dynamically linking
- Shared_Memory -- wrapper for SysV shared memory
- Shared_Malloc -- wrapper for SysV/BSD shared mallocs
- TLI_SAP -- wrapper for SVR4 TLI
- . tests -- programs that illustrate how to use the various wrappers
-
- Please refer to the INSTALL file for information on how to
- build and test the ACE wrappers. The BIBLIOGRAPHY file contains
- information on where to obtain articles that describe the ACE wrappers
- and the ADAPTIVE system in more detail.
-
- Also, please note that there is a companion tar file called
- C++_wrappers_doc.tar.Z, which is approximately 1.5 Meg compressed.
- This file is in the same ftp/gnu directory as the source code
- distribution. In this file is the following:
-
- . doc -- LaTeX documentation (in both latex and .ps format)
- . papers -- postscript versions of various papers describing ACE
-
- COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
-
- You are free to do anything you like with this code. However,
- you may not do anything to this code that will prevent it from being
- distributed freely in its original form (such as copyrighting it,
- etc.). Moreover, if you have any improvements, suggestions, and or
- comments, I'd like to hear about it! It would be great to see this
- distributed evolve into a comprehensive, robust, and well-documented
- C++ class library that would be freely available to everyone.
- Natually, I am not responsible for any problems caused by using these
- C++ wrappers.
-
- Thanks,
-
- Douglas C. Schmidt
- (schmidt@ics.uci.edu)
- Department of Information and Computer Science
- University of California, Irvine
- Irvine, CA 92717
- Work #: (714) 856-4105
- FAX #: (714) 856-4056
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
- Special thanks to Paul Stephenson for devising the recursive
- Makefile scheme that underlies this distribution. Also thanks to Olaf
- Kruger for explaining how to instantiate templates for shared
- libraries on SunOS 4.
- --
- Douglas C. Schmidt
- Department of Information and Computer Science
- University of California, Irvine
- Irvine, CA 92717. Work #: (714) 856-4105; FAX #: (714) 856-4056
-
-
- >56 Teaching Intro to OO Slides, T. Budd
-
- From: budd@daimi.aau.dk (Tim Budd)
- Subject: Re: Slides on OOP or OMT wanted
- Date: 8 Nov 1993 07:46:08 GMT
- Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
-
- >...
-
- I also have a series of slides that I have developed for use with my
- text ``an introduction to object-oriented programming'' (timothy budd,
- addison-wesley publishers). These can be found at cs.orst.edu
- directory pub/budd/oopintro/slides/*, or there is a mail server
- called almanac@cs.orst.edu and if you say
- send oopintro slides chapter1
- and so on you can get them via e-mail. Warning, it yields a lot of
- e-mail, so do it one at a time.
- --tim
-
-
- >57 Value Dependence Graphs
-
- From: Michael D. Ernst <mernst@research.microsoft.com>
- Subject: Value dependence graphs paper available
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1993 00:59:36 GMT
-
- The paper "Value Dependence Graphs: Representation Without Taxation",
- which describes a new intermediate representation which is particularly
- amenable to optimization, is available. (This version corrects typos and
- clarifies a few minor points that may not have been completely clear in
- the version which will appear in the POPL 94 proceedings.) You can get a
- copy in three ways:
-
- 1. Via anonymous ftp, obtain file research.microsoft.com:/pub/papers/vdg.ps
- (or file vdg.ps635 if you have a HP LaserJet 4 printer).
- 2. Reply to mernst@research.microsoft.com requesting PostScript by email,
- and I will send you the PostScript file of your choice. (The files are
- 483K and 1018K bytes, respectively.)
- 3. Reply to mernst@research.microsoft.com sending me your physical mail
- address, and I will mail you a hardcopy.
-
- The abstract is:
-
- The value dependence graph (VDG) is a sparse dataflow-like representation
- that simplifies program analysis and transformation. It is a functional
- representation that represents control flow as data flow and makes
- explicit all machine quantities, such as stores and I/O channels. We are
- developing a compiler that builds a VDG representing a program, analyzes
- and transforms the VDG, then produces a control flow graph (CFG) [ASU86]
- from the optimized VDG. This framework simplifies transformations and
- improves upon several published results. For example, it enables more
- powerful code motion than [CLZ86, FOW87], eliminates as many redundancies
- as [AWZ88, RWZ88] (except for redundant loops), and provides important
- information to the code scheduler [BR91]. We exhibit a fast, one-pass
- method for elimination of partial redundancies that never performs
- redundant code motion [KRS92, DS93] and is simpler than the classical
- [MR79, Dha91] or SSA [RWZ88] methods. These results accrue from
- eliminating the CFG from the analysis/transformation phases and using
- demand dependences in preference to control dependences.
-
- The paper's full citation is:
-
- @InProceedings{WeiseCES94,
- author = "Daniel Weise and Roger F. Crew and Michael Ernst and
- Bjarne Steensgaard",
- title = "Value Dependence Graphs: Representation Without Taxation",
- booktitle = POPL94,
- pages = "297-310",
- year = 1994,
- month = jan,
- address = "Portland, OR"
- }
-
- >58 Various on OO
-
- I think our ftp-site should be mentioned under the PAPERS section of
- appendix E of the comp.object FAQ. There are a number of interesting
- papers about Object-Orientation, in particular about a new object-oriented
- model, called 'Composition Filters'. Here is the uuencoded compressed
- version of a postscript document that contains abstracts of the papers
- which are available via ftp (ftp.cs.utwente.nl - /pub/doc/TRESE) or
- WWW (http://wwwtrese.cs.utwente.nl - Recent Publications of the TRESE
- project). You may also view this document from our WWW-site.
-
- Greetings,
-
- Richard.
- ---
- TRESE project
- Email: stadt@cs.utwente.nl
- TRESE WWW Server: http://www_trese.cs.utwente.nl
-
- >59 ILU OMG CORBA
-
- Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 20:51:05 PDT
- From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
- Subject: New ILU 1.8 Common Lisp support available
- To: ilu-interest.PARC@xerox.com
-
- Revised support for using ILU with Common Lisp is now available as
-
- ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/1.8/ilu-1.8-new-lisp.tar.gz
-
- Changes include:
-
- 1) The Common Lisp support no longer has to load C code for each ILU
- module loaded, so CL implementations without that capability may use
- ILU. This also speeds up loading of ILU modules considerably.
-
- 2) CORBA-style union support is now there.
-
- 3) ILU dynamic object creation is now fully supported. That is, an
- ILU kernel server may now be created which calls back to Lisp
- functions to create objects on demand, rather than having to have them
- available before clients make calls on them.
-
- 4) A non-threaded Franz ACL implementation of the ILU support is now
- included, solely as an example of how to support ILU in Common Lisp
- implementations without threads. Of course, if your CL has threads, your
- ILU support should use them.
-
- 5) A new version of the ILU manual is included, with the appropriate
- changes to the CL chapter.
-
- 6) A modified version of examples/test1/ is provided, with Lisp
- examples of the test1 program.
-
- ``But what's ILU, anyway?''
-
- The Inter-Language Unification system (ILU) is a multi-language object
- interface system. The object interfaces provided by ILU hide
- implementation distinctions between different languages, between
- different address spaces, and between operating system types. ILU can
- be used to build multi-lingual object-oriented libraries ("class
- libraries") with well-specified language-independent interfaces. It
- can also be used to implement distributed systems. It can also be used
- to define and document interfaces between the modules of
- non-distributed programs. ILU interfaces are specified in ILU's
- Interface Specification Language.
-
- The 1.8 release of ILU contains support for the programming languages
- Common Lisp, C++, ANSI C, Modula-3, and Python). It has been installed
- on many flavors of UNIX, including SPARC machines running SunOS 4.1.3
- and Solaris 2, SGI MIPS machines running IRIX 5.2, Intel 486 machines
- running Linux 1.1.78, DEC Alpha machines with OSF/1, IBM RS/6000
- machines running AIX, and HP machines running HP/UX. A port of ILU to
- the Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows NT environments has been
- finished, and will form part of the 1.9 release. ILU supports both
- threaded and non-threaded operation.
-
- One of the implementation goals of ILU is to maximize compatibility
- with existing open standards. As a result, ILU provides support for
- use of the OMG CORBA IDL interface description language, and can be
- thought of as a CORBA ORB system (though with omissions from and
- extensions to the CORBA spec). As another result, ILU includes a
- self-contained implementation of ONC RPC, and it is possible to
- describe and use existing RPC services as ILU objects. ILU is
- available free from `ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html'.
- --
- Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com> (415) 812-4763 FAX: (415) 812-4777
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304
- URL: ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/misc/janssen.html
-
- >60 Internet Info CDROM, including FAQs
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM announces the release of the Internet Info CDROM.
- This CDROM contains 12,000 documents about computers and networks:
-
- * Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
- * Internet RFCs and IENs.
- * Computer security Documents.
- * Internet Network maps.
- * Usenet technical discussion Archives.
- * Ftp sites lists and descriptions of the archives they hold.
- * Extensive bibliographies and technical book reviews.
- * documents and standards from IEEE, ISO, NIST, ANSI and others.
-
- The price is $39.95. S&H is $5 for US/Canada/Mexico, and $10 for overseas.
- If you live in California, please add sales tax. You can pay by cash, check,
- money order or Visa/MC/Dis/Amex. This CDROM is fully guaranteed, if you are
- dissatisfied with this disc for any reason whatsoever, you can return it for
- an exchange or refund.
-
- Walnut Creek CDROM
- 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
- Walnut Creek, CA 94596
-
- 1 800 786-9907
- 1 510 674-0783
- 1 510 674-0821 FAX
-
- orders@cdrom.com
-
- The disc is available for FREE to anyone that has contributed any of their
- own work. This includes FAQ maintainers, RFC authors, etc. Just email me
- your name, address, and the name of the files(s) that you wrote. Overseas
- addresses are ok.
-
- If you would like a more detailed list of other CDROM titles published by
- Walnut Creek CDROM, you can ftp the latest list from
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cdrom/catalog, or send email to info@cdrom.com.
-
- >61 Metrics
-
- From: dcp@icd.teradyne.com (Dan Proskauer)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Data on McCabe and Halstead Comple
- Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 20:58:33 GMT
-
- There is some publically available McCabe and Halstead analysis
- software for C in gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/usenet/com.sources.unix/volume20/metrics.
- I believe there is some explanation of the metrics along with it. Some other
- references are:
-
- The Art of Software Testing, Myers
-
- "An Internal Approach to Testing Horizontally Reusable
- Software", Proceedings of the 5th Annual STC Conference, 93
- Goldfedder (Overall of where McCabe fits in to A testing
- process)
-
-
- >62 Amadeus, persistence
-
- From: aoife@mordred.st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Aoife Cox)
- Subject: Re: In Search of Persistence
- Date: 14 Dec 1993 20:04:38 +1100
- Organization: University of Western Sydney
-
- >I have been searching the net trying to find any locations for papers about
- >implementation of persistence object systems or about persistence and OOPL. As
- >yet, I have not found anything remotely related.
-
- >Are there any ftp sites with such papers that someone can direct me to?
- There should be some papers on the Amadeus system, developed by the
- Distributed Systems Group at Trinity College, Dublin, ftp-able from
- ftp.cs.tcd.ie. Look in the /pub/tcd/tech-reports directory....
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Aoife
-
-
- >63 Chorus,Dist,RT,MicroK
-
- From Marc Maathuis (mm@chorus.fr):
-
- You may want to take a look at CHORUS, a distributed real-time
- microkernel that can be combined with the CHORUS/MiX subsystem, which
- is a modular, fully compatible UNIX System V (R3.2 or R4.0)
- implementation. There is also an OO subsystem named COOL (CHORUS
- Object Oriented Layer). CHORUS runs on i386/i486, 680x0, SPARC,
- transputer and on several other processors.
-
- CHORUS is available as a source technology. In Jan 94, SCO and Chorus
- will release a *binary* product for the PC market: "CHORUS/Fusion for
- SCO UNIX" is binary compatible with SCO UNIX and offers real-time
- functionality (POSIX 1003.1b and .1c, i.e. the former .4 and .4a
- interfaces) and clustering functionality.
-
- COOL provides a distributed OO programming environment for
- C++. COOL supports a set of system calls that allow the creation of
- dynamic objects. These objects can be sent messages in a location
- transparent way, they can be migrated between address spaces and sites
- and they can be stored in a persistent store; this is done in a
- transparent way, as an extension of the C++ language.
-
- There are several technical reports (in PostScript format) on CHORUS
- and on COOL available via anonymous FTP from Chorus systemes, France:
- ftp.chorus.fr [192.33.15.3], directory pub/chorus-reports. See the file
- "index" for an overview.
-
- There is also a set of ~90 slides on Chorus and CHORUS available in
- the directory pub/chorus-slides/CS-TR-92-64 (PostScript, versions 1-up
- and 2-up).
-
- If VTT is a public research lab, then you might be interested by the fact
- that Chorus systemes has special programs for universities. For more
- information on offering, conditions, etc, ftp to ftp.chorus.fr and get
- the following ASCII files
- - pub/README
- - pub/academic/README
- - pub/academic/offerings
- If you have questions, you may contact Didier Irlande <di@chorus.fr>
- for license issues or Xavier Galleri <xg@chorus.fr> for technical
- issues.
-
-
- >64 Self Opt.
-
- From: urs@cs.stanford.edu (Urs Hoelzle)
- To: self-interest@otis.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: thesis available for ftp
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 94 11:15:29 PDT
- Reply-To: urs@cs.stanford.edu
-
- Dear self-interesters,
-
- My thesis is now available via ftp and Mosaic (see below). Yes, I
- have graduated! Though many things will change, I'm planning to keep
- on working on Self at UCSB; my new e-mail address is urs@cs.ucsb.edu.
- However, I am no longer maintaining the self-interest list, for
- questions/requests please contact self-request@self rather than
- writing directly to me.
-
- -Urs
-
- ---------------
-
- Urs Hoelzle. "Adaptive Optimization for Self: Reconciling High
- Performance with Exploratory Programming." Ph.D. thesis, Computer
- Science Department, Stanford University, August 1994.
-
- The report is available in PostScript form via ftp from
- self.stanford.edu:/pub/papers/hoelzle-thesis.ps.Z or via Mosaic from
- http://self.stanford.edu. In a few weeks, it should be available in
- printed form as a Stanford CSD technical report and as a Sun
- Microsystems Laboratories technical report.
-
- Abstract: Crossing abstraction boundaries often incurs a substantial
- run-time overhead in the form of frequent procedure calls. Thus,
- pervasive use of abstraction, while desirable from a design
- standpoint, may lead to very inefficient programs. Aggressively
- optimizing compilers can reduce this overhead but conflict with
- interactive programming environments because they introduce long
- compilation pauses and often preclude source-level debugging. Thus,
- programmers are caught on the horns of two dilemmas: they have to
- choose between abstraction and efficiency, and between responsive
- programming environments and efficiency. This dissertation shows how
- to reconcile these seemingly contradictory goals by performing
- optimizations lazily.
-
-
- >65 ORBELINE: CORBA
-
- PostModern Computing is making its CORBA-compliant ORBeline product
- available free of charge to the academic community for teaching and
- research purposes. ORBeline is available via anonymous ftp from
- labrea.stanford.edu under pub/pomoco.
-
- We are making the SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.3, and OSF/1 versions of
- ORBeline available. We will consider making other platforms available
- as well if there is enough interest.
-
- Suresh Challa
- PostModern Computing
- suresh@pomoco.com
-
- What follows is the README file of this release:
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ORBELINE
- --------
-
- The SMART Object Request Broker
-
-
- ORBeline is a complete implementation of OMG's Common Object Request
- Broker Architecture (CORBA). ORBeline goes beyond the standard
- specification to provide a SMART communication framework allowing
- you to easily develop large distributed applications that are robust,
- scalable, flexible and maintainable. ORBeline incorporates PostModern's
- proven communication framework that links thousands of nodes.
-
- Highlights
- ----------
-
- ORBeline's SMART Agent dynamically tracks the communication taking place
- between all objects and their clients:
-
- o Smart Binding and Protocol Selection
-
- ORBeline automatically picks the best communication mechanism as
- soon as you try to access an object. If the object is in your process,
- it bypasses the ORB and the network altogether. When the object is on
- a remote node, ORBeline's SMART and efficient on-the-wire protocol
- is selected. When the object is implemented using another vendor's
- ORB, that vendor's on-the-wire protocol is used.
-
- o Built-in Fault Tolerance
-
- ORBeline's SMART Agent monitors communication between objects and their
- clients. In case of a failure, the SMART agent and ORBeline cooperate
- to reestablish connections between processes or their replicas.
-
- o Dynamic Directory Service
-
- ORBeline's Dynamic Directory Service tracks all registered and active
- objects, providing a high degree of efficiency, total location
- transparency and easy administration. There is no need for
- cumbersome configuration files, and no need for heavyweight object
- migration and replication mechanisms.
-
- o Platforms
-
- ORBeline runs on all classes of computers ranging from Cray
- supercomputers, to workstations, to personal computers and
- embedded systems.
-
- Complete CORBA implementation
- -----------------------------
-
- ORBeline is the most complete ORB implementation currently on the
- market. It features the following:
-
- o IDL Compiler implementing the entire Interface Definition
- Language.
-
- o Static and Dynamic Invocation Interfaces
-
- o Complete Interface and Implementation Repositories.
-
- o Support for Object Activation.
-
- o Complete set of object administration tools.
-
-
- Features
- --------
-
-
- o High Performance and Low Overhead
-
- ORBeline provides high performance while adding little overhead
- to your application. ORBeline is the only ORB product available
- on the market today suitable for running on real-time, embedded
- systems.
-
- o Flexible and Easy to Use
-
- With ORBeline it is easy to develop, deploy and maintain large
- distributed applications. ORBeline provides a high degree of
- flexibility and takes care of cumbersome details allowing
- developers to focus on their applications.
-
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-
- ORBeline uses PostModern's proven communication technology to
- connect wide area networks.
-
- o Scalability
-
- ORBeline's smart use of network resources and communication protocols
- allows applications to scale to networks of thousands of nodes.
-
- o Object Migration and Replication
-
- ORBeline's SMART agent and Dynamic Directory Service allow easy object
- migration and replication.
-
-
- Platforms
- ---------
-
- We are making the SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.3, and OSF/1 versions of
- ORBeline available free of charge to the academic community.
- We will consider making other platforms available as well if there
- is enough interest.
-
- The following compilers are supported in this release:
-
- Solaris 2.3: Sun C++ 4.0 (native), SparcWorks 3.0
- SunOS 4.x: Sun C++ 3.0 (cfront), SparcWorks 2.0.1
- OSF/1 1.3: DEC C++
-
- If there is enough interest, we can make versions compatible with
- other compilers available as well.
-
-
- LICENSING
- ---------
-
- ORBeline is provided free of charge to the academic community for
- teaching and research purposes. After installing ORBeline, call us at
- (415) 967-6169 or send e-mail to info@pomoco.com and we will send you
- a perpetual license for your site.
-
- If you are interested in ORBeline for commercial purposes, contact us
- and we can provide a limited time evaluation license.
-
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- ----------------
-
- We would like to thank Stanford University for providing us with
- a high-speed ftp site from which to distribute this ORBeline
- release.
-
-
-
- PostModern Computing Technologies, Inc.
- 1897 Landings Drive
- Mountain View, CA 94043
- Tel: (415) 967-6169
- Fax: (415) 967-6212
- info@pomoco.com
-
-
- >66 OO Designer CASE Tool
-
- **************** Object Oriented Designer ***************
-
- Prof. Taegyun Kim [ktg@taejo.pufs.ac.kr]
- Pusan University of Foreign Studies
- Pusan, Korea
-
- Version : Version 1.3.1
- Revised : October 6 1994
-
- *********************************************************
-
- Let me introduce myself. I am an assistant professor working at Department of
- Computer Engineering in Pusan University of Foreign Studies which resides in
- Pusan, Korea. My major interest is in software engineering especially in the
- area of object oriented methodologies. In teaching courses in systems analysis
- and software engineering I found a need for a good case tool that could be used
- by my students. Unfortunately, commercial case tools are too expensive for a
- university to purchase so I developed OOD. I have spent 17 man months building
- OOD. Because this is my first project combining object oriented methods, Motif,
- and C++, some of the source code may be a little clumsy. However, it does work
- well and it is still evolving. This project is very hard but is also very
- interesting. Let's enjoy it together.
-
- P.S.: I am anxious for your criticism or comment on this product. So, if it
- works on your system, please respond to me with even a one line (very short)
- message. It will give me some encouragement. Moreover please inform me your
- status (student, professor etc.) if possible.
-
- -Taegyun Kim
-
- --------------- Contents --------------
- 0. Summary
- 1. System Environment
- 2. Building OOD
- 3. Initializing the Working Environment
- 4. Functions
- 5. Examples
- 6. Reference Books
- 7. Cautions
- 8. FAQ
- ----------------------------------------
-
- 0. Summary
- ----------
-
- The Object Modeling Technique [OMT] by James Rumbaugh et al. is a methodology
- for object oriented development with a graphical notation for representing
- object oriented concepts. Object Oriented Designer [OOD] is a case tool for
- constructing the object diagrams defined in OMT. In order to use OOD it is
- necessary to understand OMT and its graphical notation. See reference (2).
-
- Why "OMT"? OMT evolved from the Extended Entity Relationship [EER] model which I
- have studied since the mid 80's. There are a number of other approaches to
- expressing object oriented concepts but I believe that OMT is superior to most
- of these. Yourdon's Object Oriented Analysis [OOA] notation, for example, is
- another excellent approach to the problem but has some limits in functionality,
- particularly with respect to data modeling, that are present in OMT.
-
- Currently, OOD has following primary functions:
-
- - general graphics editor (with limited functionality)
-
- - object diagram layout (with some additions w.r.t. original OMT notation)
-
- - C++ code skeleton generation (header file + source file)
- The comments and codes for individual member functions can be documented,
- or edited within OOD directly.
- The C++ code generator supports inheritance.
-
- I have attempted to make OOD as user-friendly as possible. My students learn to
- use it in a day even without a manual. The user-friendliness of OOD is due to my
- own object oriented, user interface mechanisms.
-
- Currently OOD generates a C++ code skeleton from an object diagram. I have a
- short term final goal to develop an object oriented "environment" with
- flexibility and portability. I think that about additional 20 man months effort
- could lead me to the final goal. Because I am currently working very hard to
- enhance its functionality, I am not especially concerned with system portability
- issues at the moment so building OOD on your particular platform may require a
- little work on your part. Please inform me of any changes that you need to make
- to build OOD on your system.
-
-
- 1. System Environment
- ---------------------
- OOD was built on a SPARC station running OS4.1.x, X11-R5 and Motif-1.2 and
- C++-2.0. OOD has also been successfully built on a SPARC using gcc-2.5.8 and
- libg++-2.5.3. It should build on most UNIX systems with X11-R5, Motif-1.2 and a
- "reasonable" C++ compiler.
-
- 2. Building OOD
- ---------------------
- 1) In ood directory edit the Makefile to reflect your environment
- 2) run "make depend"
- 3) run "make"
-
- 3. Initialize Working Environment
- --------------------------------
- OOD requires the user to select a working repository in which to store various
- output files. If this is the first time you are running OOD:
-
- 1) point at the top-menu,
- 2) select "Environment",
- 3) select "Setup",
- 4) define your working repository.
-
- If a working repository has been previously defined, select it:
-
- 1) point top-menu
- 2) select "change to"
- 3) set your working repository
-
- ...
-
-
- >67 OOTher OO CASE Tool
-
- From: conrozi@kk90.ericsson.se (Roman Zielinski TT/TSM)
- Subject: CASE OOTher 1.06f released (free/shareware)
- Organization: Ericsson
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 07:15:09 GMT
-