System Design

  Our current goal in Project Bayanihan is to develop a flexible software framework that will allow us to explore these issues by making it possible to implement various approaches to them. We are currently implementing such a framework using HORB [20], a distributed object library that provides remote objects capabilities in Java similar to those of Sun's RMI [26]. HORB was chosen over RMI because it does not require JDK 1.1 (which is presently not as ubiquitous as JDK 1.0), is easier to use [19], and is potentially faster [21]. In this section, we provide an overview of the framework architecture, and discuss how it addresses the issues described above.