• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.399-410
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• 2002

Group communication is one of key components supporting object replication. CORBA provides little support for fault tolerance and high availability that can be supported by means of object replication. The existing approaches do not allow transparent plug-in of group communication protocols into CORBA with which CORBA application programmers are able to directly exploit group communication protocols. They either require modification of CORBA or OS, or provide no room for incorporating group communication transport protocols into CORBA. In this paper, we propose a generic group communication framework that allows transparent plug-in of various group communication protocols with no modification of standard CORBA. For this, we extend the Open Communications Interface(OCI) to support interoperability, reusability of existing group communication, and independency on ORB and OS. The proposed approach can also be applied to various group communication protocols.