Software Integration of Stream-based Software Applications

Abstract

Developing software systems by integrating the existing applications becomes mature and practical. Our previous works has successfully achieved the goal of intercepting/redirecting the data in the form of files and characters by adopting the wrapper technique. However, there are a huge number of multimedia applications today. In order to glue the stream based software applications, we adopt building a virtual device as the proposed approach in this paper. A Linux driver example that uses the ALSA library is also given to demonstrate our approach.