Developing Distributed Software Systems by Incorporating Meta-Object Protocol (diMOP) with Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Although object-oriented paradigm is becoming a more realistic approach to the development of large-scale software systems, the existing object-oriented notations and methodologies do not fully support the development of distributed object systems. In this paper, we integrate Meta-Object Protocol (MOP) into a de facto standard object-oriented modeling language UML together to build a software architecture for distributed object systems. We propose a high-level extension of conventional MOPs, called diMOP which helps to develop distributed object systems by realizing a reeective architecture. To incorporate diMOP with UML, we introduce two new speciication languages: Class Diagram Supporting diMOP (CDSM) and Dynamically Conngurable Object-oriented Statemachine (DCOS), which are proposed to replace the class diagram and the state diagram of UML. The two speciication languages support to specify dynamic connguration behaviors as well as to incorporate the diMOP. This paper gives a methodology to develop eeciently distributed object systems through UML