1. CCM
From CORBA Component Model
To
Common Component Model
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2. CCM Application Development
Cycle
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3. CCM
Exists as Component
Model for more than a
decade
Several implementations
available
Platform and programming
language independent
Accepted into a large
amount of projects because
it is an open standard
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4. DDS4CCM
Specification-level support for using/configuring
DDS within the context of CCM
Introduced the concept of IDL3+ and connectors,
soon part of CORBA 3.2
Specifies DDS QoS settings through XML
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5. Deployment view
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6. DDS4CCM
Implementation available as part of CIAO
– RTI currently the only supported DDS vendor
– Designed in an extensible manner so that other
vendors could be supported
Component Based DDS (CBDDS)
– Simplifies D&C of DDS-based applications
– Reduces tedious & error prone boilerplate code for
QoS configuration
– Potentially allows for DDS implementations to be
chosen at deployment time vs. compile/design time
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7. AMI4CCM
Asynchronous invocations for CCM
– Does not require CORBA AMI support
– Details of asynch invocation hidden from component
business logic
Set of implied IDL rules
– Creates implied connector and interfaces used by
component business logic
– Currently requires annotation through preprocessor
macros
– Interfaces modeled off of CORBA AMI
AMI4CCM connector
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8. Deployment view
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9. AMI4CCM Standardization
OMG RFP issued December 2010
Draft initial submission available
Reference implementation available as part of
CIAO
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10. Built-in event support
CCM has built-in support for events
– Not very flexible or extensible
– Requires container-level support for new event passing
mechanisms
Currently part of the core CCM specification
Mostly not used with CBDDS
Proposal to move this to a connector that can be
much more powerful than the existing event
support
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11. Extensibility
Past solutions resulted in heavy containers and
deployments tools
– Tight integration between CCM implementation and
D&C toolchain
– Container-level code modifications required for new
features
Revised approach is to provide interceptor
support at various levels
– Locality (D&C toolchain)
– Container
– Component
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12. Improved Language Mappings
Current component executor programmers find
the mappings hard to use
C++ is a real challenge and needs to be
improved
Java and C can also be improved
New set of base classes specific to CCM
For CCM not all IDL supported features need to
be available
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13. Modeling support
CCM/D&C needs adequate modeling support
Multiple vendors for CCM/D&C
– CoSMIC
– Atego
– Zeligsoft
D&C specification provides XML-based meta-data
exchange format for modeling tools
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14. What do we want to do?
Migrate from CORBA Component Model to a
Common Component Model
– Decouple from CORBA specification
– Make CORBA ORB an optional middleware bus
Extensibility CCM & D&C through plugins
QoS4CCM extensions for LifeCycle
Improved language bindings
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15. What do we need?
Input from users about improvements
Support from the modeling tool vendors for the
new features
Funding to prototype, implement, and
standardize the various extensions
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16. Thanks for your attention
Johnny Willemsen <jwillemsen@remedy.nl>
Marcel Smit <msmit@remedy.nl>
http://www.theaceorb.nl
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