• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.1323-1326
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• 2003

CORBA has been a popular middleware, but recently Web Services has been emerging as a promising web middleware since it uses Internet established standards such as URL, HTTP, XML, and etc. CORBA uses IDL for describing CORBA object interface and Web Services uses WSDL for its description. Thus, in order to port or integrate CORBA objects into Web Services, one needs to understand the relationship between CORBA IDL and WSDL. In this paper, we analyze IDL and WSDL, and compare between two. It turns out that there exists a direct mapping between two, and that understanding operational environments and logic of two technologies is much more important in converting or integrating CORBA objects into Web services successfully.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2001

The software components of embedded control systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems get extremely complex as they are designed into distributed systems consisting of a large number of inexpensive microcontrollers interconnected by low-bandwidth real-time networks such as the controller area network (CAN). While recently emerging middleware technologies such as CORBA and DCOM address the complexity of distributed programming, they cannot be directly applied to distributed control system design due to their excessive resource demand and inadequate communication models. In this paper, we propose a CORBA-based middleware design for CAN-based distributed embedded control systems. Our design goal is to minimize its resource need and make it support group communication without losing the IDL (interface definition language) level compliance to the OMG standards. To achieve this, we develop a transport protocol on the CAN and a group communication scheme based on the well-known publisher/subscriber model. The protocol effectively realizes subject-based addressing and supports anonymous publisher/subscriber communication. We also customize the method invocation and message passing protocol, referred to as the general inter-ORB protocol (GIOP), of CORBA so that CORBA method invocations are efficiently serviced on a low-bandwidth network such as the CAN. This customization includes packed data encoding and variable-length integer encoding for compact representation of IDL data types. We have implemented our CORBA-based middleware on the mArx real-time operating system we have developed at Seoul National University. Our experiments clearly demonstrate that it is feasible to use CORBA in developing distributed embedded control systems possessing severe resource limitations. Our design clearly demonstrates that it is feasible to use a CORBA-based middleware in developing distributed embedded systems on real-time networks possessing severe resource limitations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.202-206
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• 2001

In spreading an internet service and developing a network technology, The interest of study about the remote control system using web environment increased. In treatise, We describe a design and an implementation of the gateway system that is based 3-tier model using corba in middleware. This system is applicatble various system environment because of using middleware and overcome a time limit and range limit because of using web browser interface.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.19-28
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• 1999

The focus is moving from the problem of building data to the problem of accessing and efficient utilization of data fitting to the purpose of a user. A distributed technology and a standard of geodata and geoprocessing is needed to satisfy these needs. This paper suggests an implementation method of a standard interface defined by OpenGIS with CORBA which is a distributed object technology. A client can invoke Open API of the middleware implemented with CORBA through IIOP. CORBA server objects which provide a client with Open API is the essence of an interoperability. CORBA server objects wrap the data formats and access methods of different GIS engines, and translate the data formats of different data servers to a standard data format.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.52.4-52
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• 2001

In this paper we propose a framework of an open architectured manufacturing system base on CORBA middleware. The manufacturing system consists of four configurable software modules 9mchine control module, database module, monitoring module, and operation module). Each module is distributed through the network and integrated with CORBA middleware technology. CORBA Characteristics including independence from programming languages, computing platforms and networking protocols makes us to easily develop new applications and to effectively integrate new module into existing distributed systems. The CORBA program used in this study is The ACE ORB (TAO) developed by the laboratory in Washington University.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.20-27
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• 2006

This paper proposes to use the UPnP as a middleware for robots. It describes the advantages of the UPnP by comparing it with the TAO CORBA that was used in a few robot development projects. We select a sample robot architecture, and examine the possible use of the UPnP as a robot middleware. This paper shows how the UPnP architecture can be applied to building a robot in the view of software architecture, message mapping, realtime, priority, network selection, performance, memory footprint, and deployment issues.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.1 no.2 s.2
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• pp.33-46
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• 1999

In distributed computing platforms like CORBA, wrappers are used to integrate heterogeneous systems or databases. A spatial data provider is one of the wrappers because it provides clients with uniform access interfaces to diverse data sources. The individual implementation of spatial data providers for each of different data sources is not efficient because of redundant coding of the wrapper modules. This paper presents a new architecture of the spatial data provider which consists of two layered objects : independent wrapper components and dependent wrapper components. Independent wrapper components would be reused for implementing a new data provider for a new data source, which dependent wrapper components should be newly coded for every data source. This paper furthermore discussed the issues of implementing the representation of query results in the middleware. There are two methods of keeping query results in the middleware. One is to keep query results as non-CORBA objects and the other is to transform query results into CORBA objects. The evaluation of the above two methods shows that the cost of making CORBA objects is very expensive.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.66-77
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a CORBA middleware extension which is suitable to SCA based communication environment. The extensions guarantee the components to interconnect others without consideration about its implementation way and enables the developers to easily achieve the performance improvements in comparison to the existing methodology. This extension includes the HAO, the IDL2VHDL compiler, and the improvement of ORBit. The HAO is ORB implemented in logic level and is limited the some function according to the characteristic of FPGA. In addition, the IDL2VHDL compiler provides the mapping from CORBA IDL to VHDL, the VHSIC hardware description language, and the additional procedures for processing the component. Finally, the improved ORBit, CORBA ORB on GPP, can be direct connecting with the HAO on FPGA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.145-150
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• 2009

In this paper, we introduce about the implementation of geospatial database middleware for construction of next generation digital map. This middleware supports global transactions based on the distributed and heterogeneous data store circumstance, geospatial data processing which does not follow standard, global schema management, object management based UFID and large scale data process. In addition, this supports creating, managing, calling for user defined procedures that can help making business logic of middleware user. User defined procedure interface is designed using CORBA and RMI protocol. In this paper, we describe the implementation of distributed object oriented database middleware which use variable data store.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.1
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• pp.203-210
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• 2004

A new research of geographic information system has been focused on an open architecture, interoperability and extensibility in their design. In order to process huge data, multidimensional data and heterogeneous geographic format data, these research move away from monolithic system to open structure system managing application layer and user interface layer. Nowadays, many developers have used CORBA middleware for the OGIS systems. However, CORBA middleware has some problems that support only a point-to-point communication and takes a long time to transfer sever data to client. Thus, in this paper, we propose a method on modifying a point-to-point communication and implement the efficient communication method. The proposed method that transfer data from sever to client in one connection support a group communication and reduce a transfer time delay.