The ISG+IRT/JIM System Technical Notes

Experimental Demonstration of the System Support for Information Flow-Centric Application Development

As of September 12th, 2000

Koichi Moriyama and Calton Pu(*)

Sony Corp / Georgia Tech
{morimori,calton}@cc.gatech.edu

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This document describes an experimental demonstration of the Infopipe concept, called the Infopipe Stub Generator (ISG). Infopipe manages information flow through an explicit description of its syntax, semantics, and Quality of Service requirements. We designed and implemented the ISG, which generates the code to parse and generate XML representations of information flow. Using ISG, developers may concentrate on the transformation of information, rather than spending time on the tedious and error-prone tasks of parsing and generating fast-changing XML streams. Our experiment also includes building an instant messaging application using Infopipe, so we can evaluate Infopipe concepts and our implementation. The first results have been encouraging.

This document consists of the following sections:

(*) The second author is partially supported by DARPA under the IT Expeditions, Ubiquitous Computing, Quorum, ALP, and PCES programs.

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