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This report describes how control integration between software components may be organised using an encapsulation technique combined with broadcast message passing : each software component, which is encapsulated within an integrated software component (IC), communicates by sending and receiving events. Events are emitted without the emitter knowing whether there are any receivers. The proposed mechanism can be used for intertool communication as well as for communication within a single tool.
This programming architecture frees the code from dependencies upon the effective software components environments, and simplifies its extension.
This research is partially supported by ESPRIT, N. 2177.
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Clément, D., Prunet, V., Montagnac, F. (1991). Integrated software components : A paradigm for control integration. In: Endres, A., Weber, H. (eds) Software Development Environments and CASE Technology. SDE 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 509. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54194-2_35
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