14.3. Integration of Components with Architecture

Many current technologies, including CORBA, DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), and Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation), can provide a de facto standard for local and distributed object communication (Baker 1998; Mowbray and Ruh 1997; OMG 1999; Rine and Retnadhas 1980; Rine and Ahmed 1997; Trevor et al. 1994). For these tools to be useful, the component implementations must be prepared to conform to the de facto standard imposed by the environment. These technologies provide client/server communications. However, each of these uses different incompatible styles. This simple requirement may make functionally useful commercial products impossible to use in some chosen environment.

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