Innovative, New and Advanced High Voltage Power Supply for Capacitor Charging at Linear Collider

Not Available We propose to develop an XML-based distributed component framework for DII-COE as a means to enabling the seamless composition and interoperation of components from diverse distributed component platforms (DCP's) such as CORBA, DCOM, and RMI. The key features of our approach are a unified notation for the specification of component interfaces (a meta-IDL) together with automated tools and techniques which map this high-level specification into existing DCP infrastructures in such a way as to support the assembly of components from any DCP and the guided use of bridges for cross-DCP interoperation. A key facet of our approach is the use of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the basis for the meta-IDL. The design of the component framework will be driven by the demonstration of a DII-COE-compliant application which uses DCOM, CORBA, and Java based components and, in Phase II, the demonstration of its bridging cross diverse DCP's. The use of distributed component technologies is, we posit, vital to the DII-COE framework for software reuse and interoperability, and nascent bridges have great potential in enabling a unified component framework. Our efforts seek to fill the gaps in the seamless use of these vital technologies, and will have significant impact in the realization of a distributed component architecture for defense systems that leverages commercial standards.