A configuration approach for distributed object-oriented system customization

Distributed application systems are built to meet functional and non-functional requirements (such as availability, reliability, security, real-time). This can be obtained constructing an application specific operating system to support the non-functional requirements. Nowadays, an attractive approach is to extend a standard support environment in order to include the extra mechanisms required. The paper shows how a configuration based approach can facilitate the achievement of this goal in CORBA based environments. An explicit separation between the functional parts from the non-functional parts of the application implementation is obtained. This provides transparency and facilitates software reuse in both software concerns.