Building Flexible, Distributed Collaboration Tools using Type-Based Publish/Subscribe — The Distributed Knight Case

摘要

Distributed collaboration is becoming increasingly important also in software development. Combined with an increasing interest in experimental and agile approaches to software development, this poses challenges to tool support for software development. Specifically, tool support is needed for flexible, distributed collaboration. We introduce the Distributed Knight tool that provides flexible and lightweight support for distributed collaboration in object-oriented modelling. The Distributed Knight implementation builds crucially on the type-based publish/subscribe distributed communication paradigm, which provides an effective and natural abstraction for developing distributed collaboration tools.