Article

Striving for versatility in publish/subscribe infrastructures

Authors:

Roberto S. Silva Filho,

David F. RedmilesAuthors Info & Claims

SEM '05: Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Software engineering and middleware

Pages 17 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/1108473.1108478

Published: 05 September 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Publish/subscribe infrastructures are used as the basic communication and integration framework in many application domains. The majority of those infrastructures, however, fall short of mechanisms that allow their customization and configuration to comply with the requirements of those application domains. In other words, they are not versatile enough to support new and evolving requirements demanded by different applications. The YANCEES (Yet ANother Configurable Extensible Event Service) addresses these versatility issues by relying on a combination of plug-in oriented architecture and extensible languages decomposed over different design dimensions of a publish/subscribe infrastructure. We demonstrate our approach, showing how the YANCEES platform can be useful in reducing the customization, extension and implementation effort of different publish/subscribe infrastructures to attend the demands of many application domains.

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Skjelsvik KLekova AGoebel VMunthe-Kaas EPlagemann TSanderson NKumar VLabrinidis AChrysanthis PJensen C(2006)Supporting multiple subscription languages by a single event notification overlay in sparse MANETsProceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Data engineering for wireless and mobile access10.1145/1140104.1140118(67-74)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2006
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Index Terms

Striving for versatility in publish/subscribe infrastructures
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools
2. Software and its engineering

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Reviews

Reviewer: David Ruiz

Silva Filho and Redmiles characterize a number of properties to assess publish/subscribe infrastructures, and report on a plug-in-based solution that attempts to maximize versatility, namely, evolution support, extensibility, programmatic access, reuse, scalability, and usability. The paper is a version of a technical report [1], but it is not easy to assess what its original contributions are, since neither the paper nor the technical report provides an in-depth evaluation of related proposals. Furthermore, there are obvious omissions of commercial proposals, such as Microsoft Biztalk or the solution by Oracle, whose motivations regarding versatility are very similar. A reference to standard proposals, such as Web services (WS)-eventing or WS-notification, would have helped put the paper in a proper, current context. Online Computing Reviews Service

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DOI:10.1145/1108473

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Skjelsvik KLekova AGoebel VMunthe-Kaas EPlagemann TSanderson NKumar VLabrinidis AChrysanthis PJensen C(2006)Supporting multiple subscription languages by a single event notification overlay in sparse MANETsProceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Data engineering for wireless and mobile access10.1145/1140104.1140118(67-74)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1140104.1140118
Filho RGeyer WBrownholtz BRedmiles D(2006)Understanding the trade-offs of blending collaboration services in support of contextual collaborationProceedings of the 12th international conference on Groupware: design, implementation, and use10.1007/11853862_22(270-285)Online publication date: 17-Sep-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11853862_22

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