Construction and Deployment Scripts for COTS-Based, Open Source Systems

Abstract

Construction/deployment scripts direct the compilation of sources to executables and the installation of those executables. This report details the construction/deployment scripts developed at the Software Engineering Institute for the GEE project. GEE, a Generic Enterprise Ensemble, is a prototypical three tier information system incorporating a number of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products. The scripts for GEE were challenging because we wanted a self contained package of scripts and source files from which the system could be built and deployed either by us at our site or by customers at their sites. The COTS products we used Java, an Oracle database, the Visibroker implementation of CORBA (the Common Object Request Broker Architecture), and the Netscape Web browser and server added challenges in installation, version change, process initiation, and communication rendezvous. This report describes the challenges and how our solutions exploited the principles of repeat not and delay binding. Lessons learned are reported elsewhere.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA373330

Entities

People

  • Wilfred J. Hansen

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Java Programming Language
  • Lessons Learned
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Shell Scripts
  • Software Development
  • User Interface
  • Web Browsers
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Software Engineering.