For your information.
I discovered the OpenSAF project:
LGPL licensed middleware for "high availability" interconnection of
components, originating from major players in the telecom hardware
industry: Emerson Network Power (bought the embedded division from
Motorola), Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, HP and Sun Microsystem.
I have no experience with it, but their White Paper
lists some relevant features for use with Orocos, see [1]. Because of its
origins, it tackles some highly relevant issues for Orocos, in contrast to
CORBA and other "Computer Science" initiatives, and it has serious
industrial backing...
The project has a free developers conference in Munich, Germany on October
15 and 16, 2008. (The program can be found in a PDF file available on the
project's website.)
Herman
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[1] "[...]six key services at the time:
· Availability Management Framework
· Cluster Membership Service
· Checkpoint Service
· Message Service
· Event Service
· Global Lock Service
OpenSAF provides additional capabilities to provide an underlying
infrastructure and management functionality that complement the SA Forum
services. The key capabilities include:
· Message Distribution Service to provide a high-performance messaging
infrastructure based on the Transparent Inter-process Communication (TIPC)
protocol
· Message-Based Checkpoint Service to enable faster recovery from a
hardware failure than is provided by the SA Forum Checkpoint Service
· Distributed Tracing Service to facilitate debugging in a distributed
environment
· System Resource Monitoring Service to enable OpenSAF users to detect and
recover from an overload situation
· Hardware Platform Integration (HPI) service which integrates the HPI
managed hardware platform with OpenSAF.
· Management Access and System Description services provide a single
access point for all management operations and a structured mechanism to
define hardware and software components and their relationship from a
high availability and failover perspective.
"
Herman
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