Engineering Event-Based Systems with Scopes Export

@incollection{citeulike:1936906, abstract = {Event notification services enable loose coupling and they are therefore becoming an essential part of distributed systems' design. However, the development of event services follows the early stages of programming language evolution, disregarding the need for efficient mechanisms to structure event-based applications. In this paper, the well-known notion of scopes is introduced to event-based systems. We show that limiting the visibility of events is a simple yet powerful mechanism that allows to identify application structure and offers a module construct for the loosely coupled components in event-based systems. We are able to customize the semantics of scoped event notification services by binding meta-objects to the application structure that reify important aspects of notification delivery, like interface mappings and transmission policies. The scoping concept facilitates design and implementation by offering encapsulation and adaption of syntax and semantics of event-based systems.}, author = {Fiege, Ludger and Mezini, Mira and M\"{u}hl, Gero and Buchmann, Alejandro P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1936906}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/nny7b4k3tgp96640}, journal = {ECOOP 2002 - Object-Oriented Programming: 16th European Conference Malaga, Spain, June 10-14, 2002. Proceedings}, keywords = {event-based, scope}, pages = {257--268}, posted-at = {2007-11-19 08:05:53}, priority = {3}, title = {Engineering Event-Based Systems with Scopes}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/nny7b4k3tgp96640}, year = {2002} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1936906 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1936906 N2 - Event notification services enable loose coupling and they are therefore becoming an essential part of distributed systems' design. However, the development of event services follows the early stages of programming language evolution, disregarding the need for efficient mechanisms to structure event-based applications. In this paper, the well-known notion of scopes is introduced to event-based systems. We show that limiting the visibility of events is a simple yet powerful mechanism that allows to identify application structure and offers a module construct for the loosely coupled components in event-based systems. We are able to customize the semantics of scoped event notification services by binding meta-objects to the application structure that reify important aspects of notification delivery, like interface mappings and transmission policies. The scoping concept facilitates design and implementation by offering encapsulation and adaption of syntax and semantics of event-based systems. JF - ECOOP 2002 - Object-Oriented Programming: 16th European Conference Malaga, Spain, June 10-14, 2002. Proceedings EP - 268 TI - Engineering Event-Based Systems with Scopes SP - 257 KW - event-based KW - scope AU - Fiege, Ludger AU - Mezini, Mira AU - Mühl, Gero AU - Buchmann, Alejandro PY - 2002/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/nny7b4k3tgp96640 ER -