Thoth – A publish/subscribe architecture for peer-to-peer tool integration

In experimental, iterative, and incremental development, the ad hoc use, and consequently integration, of heterogeneous tools supporting actual activities is crucial. This article looks at how peer-to-peer technologies may support such integration scenarios and introduces an architecture, Thoth, for peer-to-peer tool integration built on a publish/subscribe communication abstraction. Seen from an execution viewpoint, the Thoth architecture provides a simple platform for integration in which responsibility for integration is located at peers. Seen from a logical perspective, the Thoth architecture provides a set of object-oriented abstractions for an integration protocol. We present Thoth by means of two case studies of integration. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]