Supporting Live Development of SOAP and CORBA Clients

Authors

Sajeeva L. Pallemulle, Washington University in St. Louis
Vanessa H. Clark, Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth J. Goldman, Washington University in St. Louis

Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

2004-09-27

Filename

wucse-2004-56.pdf

Technical Report Number

WUCSE-2004-56

Abstract

We present middleware for a Client Development Environment that facilitates live development of client applications for SOAP or CORBA servers. We use JPie, a tightly integrated programming environment for live software construction in Java, as the target platform for our design. JPie provides dynamic classes whose signature and implementation can be modified at run time, with changes taking effect immediately upon existing instances of the class. We extend this model to automate addition, mutation, and deletion of dynamic server methods within dynamic clients. Our implementation simplifies distributed application development by masking technical differences between local and remote method invocations. Moreover, the live development model allows server-side changes to be dynamically integrated into a running client to support simultaneous live development of both the client and server.

Comments

Permanent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7936/K747485Z

Recommended Citation

Pallemulle, Sajeeva L.; Clark, Vanessa H.; and Goldman, Kenneth J., "Supporting Live Development of SOAP and CORBA Clients" Report Number: WUCSE-2004-56 (2004). All Computer Science and Engineering Research.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cse_research/1028