EXPERIENCES WITH THE INTEGRATION OF PROTOCOL SOFTWARE TOOLS

An analysis of a number of protocol software tools that are widely use d in the development of communication protocols in the Finnish telecom munications industry is presented. To analyse the integrated use of th ese tools, a non-trivial application layer protocol with ACSE, ROSE an d a simple presentation layer has been designed and implemented with t he help of these software tools. Particular attention has been paid to compose a complete protocol implementation from the fragments produce d with separate tools. Our observations clearly indicate that this int egration is a major problem with the current practices.