Design of IDL Compiler using the Marshal Buffer Management

摘要

The development of distributed application in the standardized CORBA(Common Object Request Broker Architecture) environments reduces the developing time and maintaining cost of the systems. Because of these advantages, the development of application is being progressed in the several fields using the CORBA environments. The programmers in the CORBA environments usually develop the application programs using the CORBA IDL(Interface Definition Language). The IDL files are compiled by IDL compiler and translated into the stubs and skeleton codes which are mapped onto particular target language. The stubs produced by IDL compilers processes the marshaling a data into message buffer. Before a stub can marshal a data into its message buffer, the stub must ensure that the buffer has at least enough free space to contain the encoded representation of the data. But, the stubs produced by typical IDL compilers check the amount of free buffer space before every atomic data is marshaled, and if necessary, expand the message buffer. These repeated tests are wasteful and incidence of overheads, especially if the marshal buffer space must be continually expanded. Thus, the performance of the application program may be poor. In this paper, we suggest the way that the stub code is maintain the enough free space before marshaling the data into message buffer. This methods were analyzes the overall storage requirements of every message that will be exchanged between client and server. For these analysis, in the Front End of compiler has maintain the information that the storage requirements and alignment constraints for data types. Thus, stub code is optimized and the performance of application program is increased.