REX

Developed by:
Distributed Computing Environment Imperial College London, ESPRIT project 2080, UK Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee,and Anthony Finkelstein

Short Description:
REX supports the construction of reconfigurable and extensible parallel and distributed systems. The main principle underlying this architecture is that systems should be described, constructed and modified as a structural configuration of interconnected component instances. The structure should be discribed by a separate explicit configuration language allowing components to be programmed in a range of hetergeneous programming languages.

Model: client/server, looselyÐcoupled
Properties: replication, message-passing, traditional hierarchical naming
Transparency:
Running on: Sun-3, Sun-4
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References:
REX Technical Annexe, ESPRIT Project 2080, European Economic Comission, March 1989.

Jeff Kramer, Jeff Magee, Morris Sloman, and Naranker Dulay: "An Overview of the REX Software Architecture". Department of Computing, Imperial Cllege of Science, Technologie and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London, UK.

FTP: gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk


© 1995, Alfred Lupper, Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm