A framework for real-time communication based object oriented industrial messaging services

The goal of the ongoing project described in this paper is to provide an object oriented real-time industrial messaging service on top of a Quality of Service (QoS) aware Object Request Broker (ORE) with real time network communications. Our project has investigated object oriented solutions for industrial messaging services. The corresponding prototype offers a portable object oriented industrial messaging service implemented in Java. We have built a QoS aware extension of this service based on Jonathan, a flexible ORE that allows the introduction of temporal QoS to handle real time constraints. The full prototype is based on the AJAX toolkit, our binding factory for ATM networks.