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ANSA Consortium Confidential
ANSA Technical Board Meeting Agenda for 8th and 9th April 1998
Chairman: Bill O'Riordan
1000 |
Welcome, apologies Confirmation of Agenda Minutes of Last Meeting and Matters Arising |
1005 |
Overall Progress Summary - Andrew Herbert |
1030 |
Mobile Object Workbench Developments - Richard Hayton, Mike Bursell |
| Richard will give an
overview of the issues of making objects mobile. Three topics to be covered:
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1115 |
Coffee |
1130 |
IIOP for FlexiNet - Matthew Faupel |
| An overview of the design, structure and functionality of the new additions to support IIOP on FlexiNet. The lessons learnt and changes made to FlexiNet in order to fit in this new and very different protocol. | |
1200 |
FAST activities in FollowMe - Michael Breu |
| The support of mobile users is the core objective of the FollowMe project. FAST is responsible for one of the pilot applications which employs mobile agent technology in the Bavaria-Online Citizens network. To this end an information retrieval architecture has been developed to establish a system of agents, service provider, and contents providers to assist the user in his information management. | |
1300 |
Lunch |
1400 |
Mobile Object Security Developments - Takanori Ugai |
| Design and implementation progress report of the mobile object security model whose initial design Will Harwood presented in January. | |
1445 |
Newcastle University C3DS Project - Santosh Shrivastava |
| Santosh will talk about the C3DS: Control and Coordination of Complex Distributed Services Project and related work at Newcastle University. | |
1545 |
TB Adjourns until tomorrow - Coffee |
1600 |
Management Board |
1900 |
Dinner, King's College |
| Thursday 9th April - TB Resumes | |
0930 |
Persistent information space design - Douglas Donaldson |
| A requirement of the
FollowMe project is for a service allowing information to
be stored safely. The InformationSpace design allows
information objects to be transparently stored after
changes caused by a remote method invocations. It also
allows these robust objects to gain additional
transparencies such as migration and replication
transparency, which allows efficient access to stored
information in a dynamic distributed environment. The
InformationSpace design is presented as an example of
FlexiNet binding. Andrew Herbert will present this talk as Douglas is on holiday. |
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10.30 |
DCAN wrap up - Matthew Faupel |
| Key developments of the project and resultant documents that are available. | |
10.45 |
Coffee |
11.00 |
Enterprise Beans and Transactions - Zhixue Wu |
| At the last Board meeting,
Zhixue demonstrated a build tool that allows users to
make an application component transactional by
graphically connecting it to a transaction frame. Since
then, he has worked on designing and implementing a
transaction frame. The result is a reflective and
component-based transaction architecture. Using
components enables users to assemble portable,
customisable components into applications. Reflection
provides two additional features that are important for
supporting Internet transaction processing. First, it
enables the transaction infrastructure to be easily
adapted to new application requirements and changing
environments. Secondly, it allows programmers to provide
application-specific information declaratively and
separately from application code. Zhixue will also give a brief summary of what Enterprise JavaBeans are, and how his work relates to it. |
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11.45 |
Any Other Business |
12.00 |
Close |