Realization of a TMN Java management API

Several middleware products are dealing with the representation of ASN.1 values. This paper proposes a novel approach which realizes the object oriented representation of ASN.1 values completely in Java. A prototype implementation of this API has been realized in parallel to the definition process in order to evaluate the practicability of the paper based specification. The main difference of this implementation to existing C++ wrapper classes is, that the Java-ASN.1 API does not encapsulate existing native C code and can therefore be applied on several processing environments. This paper includes also a presentation on a completely new method of building ASN.1 value representations without referencing the corresponding type definitions (metadata) during runtime. This approach which implies the separation of the ASN.1 API into two functional components enables a totally new kind of architecture for TMN management platforms. This can be used to design a small independent client part and a powerful server part for BER value encoding.