Application Message Interface

Abstract

The Application Message Interface (AMI) is a software system designed and developed as part of the DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE). The primary role of AMI is to serve as a framework for integration in a dynamic, heterogeneous, and extensible distributed environment. A distributed environment is characterized as dynamic when client-server relationships need not be statically configured. By extensible it is meant that the available services are subject to change. Thus, in a dynamic and extensible environment clients have new services available at run time. AMI is aimed at facilitating seamless integration in such an environment.<>