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Distributed Architecture Description Language
Overview
Backus-Naur Form (BNF) Semantics
Conversations
Conversation Identifier
Connections
Connection Identifier
Connectivity
Order
Delivery
Dagent
Dagent Identifier
Dagent Connections
Alphabet
Terms
Term Identifier
Type Identifier
Constant Term
Variable Identifier
Variable Term
Function Term
Function Term
Function Identifier
Parameter List
Function Quality of Service Contract
Errors Tolerated
Highly Available
Fault Tolerant
Function Performance Contract
Performance
Latency
Error Rate
Certainty
Sentences
Conversation Behavior
Sequential
Parallel
Wait
At Least Once
Zero or More Times
Contract
Performance
Latency
Error Rate
Capacity
General Observations about a Contract
Conversation Options
Persistence
Volatile
Data Open
Data Integrity
Data Privacy
Marshaled
Authenticated
Authorized
Dagent
Connection
Obeys
Contract
Resource
Service
The Environment
Ronald LeRoi Burback
1998-12-16