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Infosphere Infrastructure (II)

Abstract

The Caltech Infospheres Infrastructure (II) is a distributed system framework that is implemented in Java. It provides a generic object model and a variety of messaging models (asynchronous, synchronous, and remote procedure calls). This system is freely available, so that researchers and developers can develop lightweight distributed systems that can leverage open standards and the World Wide Web. Caltech is developing methodologies that take advantage of the system's design so that reasoning on entire distributed systems is feasible. With these methodologies, one can say something about the reliability, completeness, and robustness of a distributed system as a whole. The II is being extended to support interoperability with other distributed system models and to utilize emerging standards in the Java domain.

DateOfInformation

Mon Oct 19 09:54:05 1998

Domain

Distributed Processing Tools

TargetEnvironment

To use the II packages, you need a Java 1.1 Developer's Kit. Sun Microsystems provides the JDK free for SPARC Solaris, x86 Solaris, Windows NT, Windows 95, and MacOS, or you can find other ports such as the ones mentioned previously in our lists of tested and untested Java platforms

Version

1.0

VersionDate

January 1998

Webpage

http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/

ContactIs

Infosphere Infrastructure (II) Help