| Abstract: | CIMS has seen the growth of multiple incompatible hardware architectur es, each architecture supporting several incompatible operating systems, and eac h platform operating with various incompatible development tools (e.g., programm ing language compilers, DBMS, etc.) and one or more incompatible graphic user in terfaces. Also, the growth of the Internet, the World-Wide Web, has introduced new dimensio ns of complexity into the development process. All of these must be dealt with a s the application is made workable in a distributed client-server environment. This paper outlines the architecture of a communication system for the CIMS appl ication integration platform. The communication system makes possible the reque st for service across heterogeneous platforms and networks, and provides some co mmon solutions to issues common to CIMS applications. |
