Monitoring of distributed CORBA applications

Monitoring of distributed CORBA applications and their visualisation. ObjectMonitor/VISCO. (Cooperation: Philips research laboratories Aachen Germany and University of Applied Science Wiesbaden, Faculty computer science, Labour for distributed systems).

Brief description:

• Design and implementation of CORBA application instrumentation (Orbix) with Orbix request filtering. (ObjectMonitor)
• Design and implementation of a protocol to exchange informations between the instrumented application and the display program using a TCP/IP socket transport layer.
• Adaptation of a X11 graph widget to the requirements needed to visualise the relationships of measured CORBA applications. (VISCO)
• Design, implementation and description of the protocol interface so that the visualisation component can be used in other context.

Project role:

Software developer, Software architect

Operating systems:

HP-UX, Solaris

Development environment:

Orbix 1.3/2.0, Solaris C++ Compiler, HP-UX C++ Compiler, GNU C/C++-Compiler, GNU Make, GNU Emacs, GNU Debugger

Hardware:

HP-Workstation, Sun Sparc-Workstation

Customer, Industry:

External project at University of Applied Science Wiesbaden in cooperation with Philips research laboratories Aachen Germany, Research area Management of distributed applications (CORBA).

Time, Duration:

March 96 - August 97, 3 MM