ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 23004-3 First edition 2007-09-15 Information technology Multimedia Middleware - Part 3: Component model Technologies de I'information - Intergiciel multimedia - Partie 3: Modele de composant Reference number ISO/IEC 23004-3:2007(E) IEC ISo @ISO/IEC2007 ISO/IEC 23004-3:2007(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The Iso Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below COPYRIGHTPROTECTED DOCUMENT ? ISO/IEC2007 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either isO at the address below or IsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ISO/IEC2007-All rights reserved ISO/IEC 23004-3:2007(E) Contents Page Foreword Introductior 1 Scope. 2 Organization of this document 3 Normative references. 2 4 Terms and definitions . 5 Overview of interface suites.. 3 6 General support interface suites . 6.1 Instantiation of realization elements .... 4 6.2 Interaction with and between realization elements .51 Overview of realization . .108 7.1 General .... 108 7.2 Guiding principles 7.3 Assumptions .... ..109 7.4 Architecture overview. 110 7.5 M3Wstakeholders 111 7.6 Technical context ... ..116 8 Development framework... 8.1 Overview... .118 8.2 Concepts 118 8.3 Behaviour.. ...127 9 Iterator idiom .129 9.1 Overview..... 10 Execution framework... ..130 10.1 Concepts .130 10.2 Behaviour.. ..149 11 Service Manager. .154 11.1 Description.... 11.2 Service Manager's APls.. ..154 11.3 Logical component and service.... .155 11.4 Hierarchical structure of service .. 156 11.5 Service Manager usages.. 11.6 Metadata... ..162 12 Remote Method Invoker..:. 191 12.1 Overview.... .191 12.2 Proxies and wrappers 193 12.3 Marshalling parameters ..196 12.4 REMI-R logical component. 199 12.5 REMI-P logical component. .200 12.6 Remotable service development support.... ....201 Annex A (normative) Service Manager interface definition. ..203 Annex B (normative) Logical Service metadata schema...... Annex C (normative) Service metadata schema. Bibliography. ation All rights reserved ili ISO/IEC 23004-3:2007(E) Foreword Iso (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. IsO and IEC technical committees collaborate in fields of mutual interest. Other international organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with IsO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEc Directives, Part 2. The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting