Selected sections of this report were published in the Proceedings of theInternational SRDS Workshop on Dependable System Middleware and Group Communication (DSMGC 2000), in conjunction with the 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Nurnberg, Germany, October 2000.
The MOOSCo project, Multi-user Object-Oriented environments with Separation of Concerns, addresses the difficulties in applying a component-based approach in a vertical and integrated manner, from analysis to implementation, to the design of this class of systems. To support communication among distributed entities, the project will use a configurable group communication system called Appia. The paper discusses the role of Appia in the MOOSCo architecture.
Also available extended report (pdf).