A Message Management System for Cooperative Message-based Interface Development

In Large scale system, components are developed by many different developers. In such a development environment, efficiency of the development depends largely on effectiveness of interface management. In the early stage of development, many components are newly defined or modified quite often. These definitions and modifications of components cause the change of interfaces between components. If changes of interfaces are not properly managed, many developers may implement components based on different version of interfaces. This causes decrease in efficiency of development. "Message Definition and Management system (MDMS)" provides the means to cope with the inefficiency of unmanaged interface definitions and changes. MDMS automatically generates source code and Interface Design Description (IDD). The automatic generation of source code and IDD prevents the disagreement between code and documents. Furthermore, MDMS shows the overall view of message flow for a system. Based on this information, we can optimize the system identifying message bottleneck and apply to support for the performance tuning of the system.