1、 Reference number ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) ISO 2006TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/TR 24532 First edition 2006-06-01 Intelligent transport systems Systems architecture, taxonomy and terminology Using CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) in ITS standards, data registries and data dictionaries Systmes i
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13、bject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO/TR 24532 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 204, Intelligent transport systems. ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) iv ISO 2006 All rights reservedIntroduction CORBA is one of many software technolo
14、gies involved in distributed systems and system integration. There is a significant number of existing CORBA deployments in ITS, and discussions on best practice and standardization have naturally emerged, and discussion can often lead to comparisons between different technologies and confusion, eve
15、n apparent “competition” between different software technologies. The objective of this Technical Report is to identify the role of and provide guidelines for the use of CORBA in ITS. TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) ISO 2006 All rights reserved 1 Intelligent transport systems Systems architect
16、ure, taxonomy and terminology Using CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) in ITS standards, data registries and data dictionaries 1 Scope This Technical Report clarifies the purpose of CORBA and its role in ITS. It provides some broad guidance on usage, and prepares the way for further I
17、SO deliverables on the use of CORBA in ITS. 2 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply. 2.1 General Inter ORB Protocol inter ORB protocol that defines the message formats between ORBs in a distributed environment 2.2 Interface Definition Lang
18、uage language for defining interfaces to CORBA objects which is independent of platform, operating system and programming language 2.3 Internet Inter ORB Protocol inter ORB protocol that allows ORBs to use the Internet as a communications bus by mapping inter ORB messages onto TCP/IP NOTE This is an
19、 implementation of GIOP. 2.4 Model-Driven Architecture method of writing specifications and developing applications, based on a platform-independent model (PIM) NOTE A complete MDA specification consists of a definitive platform-independent base UML model, plus one or more platform-specific models (
20、PSM) and interface definition sets, each describing how the base model is implemented on a different middleware platform. 2.5 Object Request Broker function within the CORBA architecture that acts as a broker in fulfilling client requests for services from objects in a distributed environment 2.6 Pl
21、atform-Independent Model model of a software system that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) 2 ISO 2006 All rights reserved2.7 Platform-Specific Model model of a software system that is linked specifically to a technological platform 2.8 Se
22、cure Sockets Layer protocol for transmitting private information via the Internet by using public and private keys to encrypt data 2.9 Travel Information Highway open and independent association of information publishers and receivers who have an interest in exchanging travel information using an ag
23、reed set of principles 3 Abbreviated terms C2C Centre to Centre CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture GIOP General Inter ORB Protocol IDL Interface Definition Language IIOP Internet Inter ORB Protocol IOR Interoperable Object Reference ITS Intelligent Transport Systems MATTISSE Midlands Ad
24、vanced Transport Telematics Information Services and Strategies in Europe MDA Model-Driven Architecture NTCIP National Transportation Communications for ITS Protocol OMG Object Management Group ORB Object Request Broker PIM Platform-Independent Model PSM Platform-Specific Model QMISS Quantified Moto
25、rway Information Supply System SSL Secure Sockets Layer TCP Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TIH Travel Information Highway UML Unified Modelling Language ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) ISO 2006 All rights reserved 3 4 Requirements 4.1 CORBA Background CORBA
26、 is a vendor-independent architecture and infrastructure that computer applications use to work together over networks. Using the standard protocol IIOP, a CORBA-based program from any vendor, on almost any computer, operating system, programming language or network can interoperate with a CORBA- ba
27、sed program from the same or another vendor, on almost any other computer, operating system, programming language and network. CORBA applies object-oriented principles to distributed programming. A “CORBA object” offers services through well-defined interfaces specified using the OMG/ISO IDL. Client
28、s use an objects services by issuing requests to the object. The implementation details are kept hidden from clients. Language mappings from IDL to various programming languages make CORBA constructs available to invoke in programs. This Technical Report does not attempt to provide a full explanatio
29、n of CORBA. Key parts of CORBA are already International Standards, including ISO/IEC 14750 and ISO/IEC 19500-2. CORBA is created and developed at the Object Management Group (OMG), a not-for-profit industry consortium. The best reference for further CORBA background is www.omg.org/corba. 4.2 When C
30、ORBA is appropriate CORBA is a direct and productive way of implementing systems with distributed behaviour. Due to the wide range of language and operating system bindings available, CORBA is often a suitable choice when integrating existing systems. CORBA can provide a richer range of services tha
31、n those available in many other middleware technologies. 4.3 Applying CORBA in ITS For the purpose of this Technical Report, usage of CORBA will be split into distinct paradigms: “objects with behaviour” and “data/message transfer”. Both are legitimate usage paradigms for ITS. 4.3.1 Objects with beh
32、aviour Distributed ITS systems have traditionally relied on messaging, but CORBA offers a richer programming model than just messaging. In this model, objects communicate and collaborate with one another to achieve the purpose of an overall system. Designers, rather than thinking about what data wil
33、l be exchanged, consider what services will be offered by each component. The components are given CORBA interfaces with operations that denote some real behaviour. Compared to messaging, this approach is more tightly coupled. Although asynchronous messaging is well supported in CORBA, the classic m
34、ode of use is for clients to make synchronous invocations of the operations of the service-providing CORBA objects. In many applications, this tight coupling is likely to be the best approach. Where the desired behaviour of components is known, creation of corresponding object interfaces is consider
35、ed to be the most direct and productive way of designing and programming. The objects will tend to be domain-specific. A good example context in ITS would be integration of control systems, where components must interact to achieve overall system behaviour. 4.3.2 Data/message transfer 1)In a limited
36、 set of application contexts, data transfer is the best model. The reasons are partly non-technical, but nonetheless valid. Data owners, such as transportation authorities or operators, may have an idea that 1) While it is also possible to implement object invocations through messaging, this subclau
37、se describes message transfer in the sense widely used in ITS, where the messages are considered to be data. ISO/TR 24532:2006(E) 4 ISO 2006 All rights reservedtheir data is valuable, and that it could be used to provide further services, but they may not yet know exactly what services could be prov
38、ided. Rather than waiting to define services, the data owner may actually achieve quicker uptake by making their data available, to encourage service providers to participate. In travel information applications, both information service providers and network operators need to know the current state
39、of the travel network. Because significant travel incidents are irregular and yet require timely response and information dissemination, there is often a requirement for asynchronous event-based data exchange. There is also a requirement for discovery of current state on initialization of a client a
40、pplication. These two distinct requirements are the key forces on the design of CORBA interfaces for travel information systems. While OMG has already standardized particular CORBA interfaces for common computing patterns (“CORBA Services”), none of the current OMG set provides a complete solution.
41、For example, the OMG Notification Service has been used in ITS, but with an additional layer added to handle client initialization. CORBA interfaces for data distribution will tend to be general, with operations phrased in terms of general software and data concepts rather than ITS-specific concepts
42、 The ITS-specific content will be passed as parameters. An interesting design issue is whether specific ITS data models should be encoded into the IDL (e.g. as ITS-specific structs or value types) or whether the IDL should use general mechanisms (such as IDL “Any” type or IDL unions of possible bas
43、ic types). Specific types have slightly better performance when marshalling. General types avoid recompilation of IDL after data model changes. While the great majority of applications would require re-coding anyway to reflect data model changes, general types are very useful to those few applicatio
44、ns (typically graphical user interfaces or protocol bridges) that can adapt to new models at runtime using metadata. Message transfer can be a useful technique where loose coupling is desired, perhaps to match underlying legacy system behaviour. In this case, existing OMG services such as the Notifi
45、cation Service can be employed. 4.3.3 Specialized CORBA versions For embedded or other low-footprint systems, “Embedded CORBA” or “Minimum CORBA” shall be used. For hard real-time systems “Realtime CORBA” shall be used. 4.3.4 CORBA Security Like any distributed technology, CORBA has points at which
46、security threats should be considered. For each threat-point there are countermeasures, and many countermeasures have been standardized in OMG security specifications. Possibly the most widely implemented aspect of CORBA security is the use of the IIOP protocol over the secure SSL protocol. However,
47、 any deployment of CORBA (or indeed any information technology) should consider the threats, define a security policy, and (in the case of CORBA) investigate available countermeasures in CORBA security specifications and implementations. 4.3.5 CORBA Access Through Firewalls CORBA has acquired a repu
48、tation for being awkward to use through firewalls. This is due to a combination of non-technical factors, which can be overcome. A fundamental firewall function is to prevent any outgoing access except to specific ports with specific protocols, for example a firewall may explicitly allow the web pro
49、tocol HTTP to pass through the well-known TCP port 80. CORBA IIOP also has established well-known ports (one for regular IIOP and one for IIOP over SSL). However, firewall administrators have been reluctant to open up ports other than the well-known HTTP ports. The argument is sometimes given that since HTTP is the protocol for retrieving static HTML information, while IIOP could be used to invoke any arbitrary behaviour, then the latter is less secure. However, this argument is refuted by the ability to “tunnel” to layer virtually any pr
