Supporting transition to open, heterogeneous computing environment

Open system architectures and platforms are gaining ground in distributed computing very fast. Several architecture models and even metamodels are created to ensure interoperability between systems that declare themselves to be open. However, the transition from traditional closed systems on traditional platforms to the usage of new paradigms offered by the new models is difficult. In this paper we suggest an open computing architecture that allows the coexistence of the old and new paradigms of cooperation. This architecture offers a new concept, service interface autonomy, for systems within a coalesced network. Therefore, the model is not only to be used in the transition phase but also to support the coexistence and cooperation of several different application area networking environments in the future. We also suggest service invocation scheme comparable to communication paradigms of RM-ODP and describe software supporting the function. Computing Reviews