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formalized. Other systems don’t have such control over the communication. In
CORBA for instance, clients may join at any time, communicate with anyone
they like and then leave again. Other systems, like Field, merely just facilitate
the communication. The ToolBus however, allows one to fully coordinate all
interaction!
The conclusion is therefore that the ToolBus is a unique and useful coordination architecture. One of the biggest problems is the lack of structure (on
processes). In the next section the structure-related problems of the ToolBus
will be described in more detail.
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