Running distributed applications using MMS-CORBA

Abstract

Nowadays, distributed computing systems are widely used. Developing software for these systems has proven to be a complicated task, due to the heterogeneity of the distributed system components and the underground communication layers. MMS is a suitable language to carry out the communication between devices in a heterogeneous manufacturing system because it provides uniformity in accessing them. CORBA architecture has been used in recent work in order to implement this protocol in an easier way. The most important objects defined in MMS have been adapted to this new architecture (VMD, Domain, Program Invocation, Event, ...). This paper proposes the use of these objects in order to build distributed applications in a flexible manufacturing system.