List of Abbreviations

ACE

Adaptive Communication Environment

CORBA

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

DCOM

Distributed Component Object Model

DCP

Distributed Configuration Protocol

Doctor

Distributed ORB Configuration Tool

DSRT

Dynamic Soft Real-Time Scheduler

OMG

Object Management Group

ORB

Object Request Broker

PDA

Personal Digital Assistant

RMI

Remote Method Invocation

SPDF

Simple Prerequisite Description Format