From Metacomputing to Metabusiness Processing

Abstract

The importance of large-scale electrical business processing is increasing today as recent Internet technologies build on the basic infrastructure. Simply integrating existing technologies and resources to form a platform that satisfies large-scale electrical business processing requirements is not enough, however. Legion is a wide-area distributed object system that offers mechanisms for describing, creating, and managing objects in a large-scale, heterogeneous, distributed computing environment. Its original design objective was to build a global virtual computer system that uses Legion as its operating system for computer intensive applications. This paper introduces our efforts to extend the Legion system into a backbone that supports business processing with consistent resource representations, identical service interfaces, and an easy-to-use developing environment. We will focus on a framework that supports CORBA from within the Legion system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA457080

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  • Andrew Grimshaw
  • Li-jie Jin

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  • Hp

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  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

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