Software Component-Based Architecture for Applications with Execution Platform Affording Acces to the Metaprogram Level

• US 20080216049A1
• Filed: 07/26/2006
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Grivot, Emmanuel, Fournies, Philippe
• Application Number:
  US11/996,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20080216049A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/465 Distributed object oriented systems remote method invocation [RMI] G06F9/548
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/54 Interprogram communication

Abstract

The present invention pertains to a software component-based architecture for applications with execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, and in particular for developing and executing man-machine interfaces, and it is characterized in that it is an architecture with components explicitly defining all the characteristics of the components, practically without involving the code defining these components, managing the components during their execution, and providing them with technical services, and that it comprises a generic container accommodating on the one hand components whose definition ensues from the specifications of the provisions of the application to be carried out and depends on the domain of use of the application, this container accommodating on the other hand technical services provided.

Claims

1. A software component-based architecture for an application with execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, wherein an application implementing a programming language provides an object definition of itself, wherein this architecture is an architecture with components explicitly defining all the characteristics of the components, substantially without involving the code defining these components, managing the components during their execution, and providing the components with technical services, and wherein this architecture comprises a generic container accommodating components whose definition ensues from the specifications of the provisions of the application to be carried out and depends on the domain of use of the application, this container accommodating technical services provided.

2. The architecture as claimed in claim 1, wherein the services provided are at least one of the following services:

the persistence of the parameters of the components, the propagation of events between components, according to the “

push”

or “

pull”

modes, the traces of the inputs/outputs of the components, the asynchronism of the inputs/outputs of the components, remote communication between the components.

3. A method of placing software components in communication for an application with execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, in an architecture as claimed in claim 1, wherein the container automatically determines on execution of the program for managing the components of the architecture the characteristics of the components and the description of the technical services provided by interrogating via the metaprogram the components and the services provided.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the technical services provided are made available to the components by a directly executable code segment generated by the container.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the code segment ensures the join between any two components

6. A man-machine interface, implemented by an execution platform affording access to the metaprogram level, namely an application implementing a programming language which provides an object definition of itself, wherein the man-machine comprises an architecture as claimed in claim 1.