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Publication
ICRA 1991
Conference paper
Building an object-oriented environment for distributed manufacturing software
Abstract
A description is presented of the characteristics of a programming environment for distributed manufacturing software based on an open workcell architecture. The authors consider C++ as a base language for this environment and describe extensions to the language which would make it more suitable for distributed systems integration. The main problem stems from insistence on static (compile-time) binding and type-checking and the necessity of introducing dynamic binding for convenient encapsulation of concepts such as remote procedure call.