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Instant-X: a component-based middleware architecture for a generic multimedia API

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Holger Schmidt,

Jan-Patrick Elsholz,

Franz J. HauckAuthors Info & Claims

Companion '08: Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware '08 Conference Companion

Pages 90 - 92

https://doi.org/10.1145/1462735.1462759

Published: 01 December 2008 Publication History

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Today, it is a complex task to develop multimedia applications because only basic protocols and codecs are available. This leads to inflexible proprietary software implementing unavailable functionality on its own.

In this work we present Instant-X, a novel OSGi-based middleware for a generic multimedia API. Instant-X provides standard multimedia components and supports dynamic deployment, i.e., unavailable components are automatically discovered and loaded in a peer-to-peer network on demand. This eases application development and allows reusing common components for multiple applications. Unlike related work, Instant-X provides a generic API for essential tasks of multimedia applications. This API abstracts from concrete component implementations and thus allows replacing specific protocol implementations at runtime.

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H. Schmidt, J. H. Yip, F. J. Hauck, and R. Kapitza. Decentralised Dynamic Code Management for OSGi. In 6th MiNEMA workshop. ACM, 2008.

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Sun Microsystems. Java Media Framework API Guide, 1999.

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Instant-X: a component-based middleware architecture for a generic multimedia API
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications
      2. Software architectures

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Companion '08: Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware '08 Conference Companion

December 2008

134 pages

ISBN:9781605583693

DOI:10.1145/1462735

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Fred Douglis
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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Middleware '08: 9th International Middleware Conference

December 1 - 5, 2008

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