Herbal-T, enabling integration, interoperability, and reusability of Internet components

Abstract

Herbal-T introduces an architecture where Internet component integration, interoperability, and component instantiation are the base for information flow coordination. This architecture introduces a framework for combining object functionality across the Internet to create new Internet applications. These new applications are defined in terms of active relationships. The concept of active relations as found in active databases is extended to define a new paradigm for creating Internet applications. In addition, Internet component interoperability is achieved using Applets, Java Applications, CORBA and RMI. This paper presents how the Herbal-T architecture support extends active relations to create an integration, interoperability, and reusability framework.