Use of typed buses for distributed communications

This paper describes distributed communications based on a new paradigm of middleware platform called the typed bus (TB) platform. While traditional m iddleware platforms provide the same type of communication paths between di stributed objects, the TB platform provides typed buses, which are communic ation paths differentiated according to application's communication charact eristics. Each typed bus represents unique communication type and controls communications between distributed objects according to its type as a hardw are system bus constrains communication between hardware components. Dic tr ibuted communications are achieved via typed buses, which check if the comm unications are compliant with their types. In this paper we propose the arc hitecture of the TB platform, introduce TB Type Definition Language used to specify a typed bus's type, and describe an implementation of our platform .