Table of Contents
Cooperative Environments for Distributed System Engineering: Summary
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Presentation
1.2 Project Framework
1.3 Application Domains
1.4 Book Plan and Organization
Chapter 2. Research and Development Projects
2.1 Related Projects and Reusable Products
2.2 MULTICUBE
2.3 SEDRES
2.3.1 Practical Achieved Results
2.3.2 Practices and Lessons Learned
2.4 SEDRES 2
2.5 DIANE
2.5.1 Practical Achieved Results
2.5.2 Practices and Lessons Learned
2.6 EDISON
2.6.1 Practical Achieved Results
2.6.2 Practices and Lessons Learned
Chapter 3. Relevant Existing Practices
3.1 Collaborative Systems Design and Analysis
3.1.1 System Design Process for Aerospace Domain
3.1.2 Products
3.2 Collaborative Systems Verification
3.2.1 System Assembly, Integration, and Testing
3.2.2 Thermal-Vacuum Space Simulation Test Scenario
3.2.3 Products
Chapter 4. Middleware
4.1 Middleware Technologies
4.1.1 High Level Architecture (HLA)
4.1.2 CORBA
4.1.3 Web-Based Technologies
4.2 Products
4.2.1 Defense Modelhng and Simulation Office (DMSO) RTI 1.3
4.2.2 Defense Modelling and Simulation Office (DMSO) RTI 1.3-NG
4.2.3 OSimFramework
4.2.4 IONA Technologies: Orbix 3.0 Family
4.2.5 IONA iPortal Suite
4.2.6 Component Broker
4.2.7 VisiBroker 4.0
4.2.8 TAO
4.2.9 LiveContent BROKER 3.2
4.2.10 BEA WebLogic Enterprise 5.1
4.2.11 ObjecTime Developer
4.2.12 Exceed WEB
4.2.13 BizTalk Server
Chapter 5. Product Data and Workflow Management
5.1 Product Data Management, Exchange, and Interoperability
5.1.1 General Presentation
5.1.2 Standards and Committees
5.1.3 Products
5.1.4 Supporting and Using Industries
5.2 Work/low Management
5.2.1 General Presentation
5.2.2 Standards and Committees
5.2.3 Products
5.2.4 Supporting and Using Industries
5.3 Session Management
5.3.1 Features
5.3.2 Products
Chapter 6. Communications
6.1 Multicast Technology
6.1.1 Basic Concepts
6.1.2 Providing a Reliable Transmission Service
6.1.3 Adding Congestion Control to Multicast Transmissions
6.1.4 Other Associated Services
6.1.5 New Multicast Routing Protocols and Their Large Scale Deployment
6.1.6 Future Trends in Multicast Routing
6.1.7 Tools to Help and Monitor the Multicast Deployment
6.1.8 Multicast-Enabled Applications and Libraries
6.2 Network Quality of Service Management
6.2.1 Introduction to Differentiated Services
6.2.2 Availability of Differentiated Services
Chapter 7. Groupware
Appendix A1.Product Classification Summary
Appendix A2.Acronyms and Abbreviations
References
Author Index