Transparent self-optimization in existing CORBA applications

Sadjadi, S. Masoud; McKinley, Philip K.

doi:10.1109/icac.2004.1301351

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“…Various aspects of the ACT framework have been described in earlier conference papers [10,11]; this paper provides a complete picture of the ACT project, presents a more comprehensive architectural solution, and includes additional details of the autonomization process and experimental results for three different types of autonomic behavior: self-healing, self-optimization, and self-configuration. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows.…”

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Transparent autonomization in CORBA

Sadjadi

McKinley

2009

Computer Networks

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a b s t r a c tIncreasingly, software systems are constructed by integrating and composing multiple existing applications. The resulting complexity increases the need for self-management of the system. However, adding autonomic behavior to composite systems is difficult, especially when the constituent components are heterogeneous and they were not originally designed to support such interactions. Moreover, entangling the code for self-management with the code for the business logic of the original applications may actually increase the complexity of the systems, counter to the desired goal. In this paper, we address autonomization of composite systems that use CORBA, one of the first widely used middleware platforms introduced more than 17 years ago that is still commonly used in numerous systems. We propose a model, called Adaptive CORBA Template (ACT), that enables autonomic behavior to be added to CORBA applications automatically and transparently, that is, without requiring any modifications to the code implementing the business logic of the original applications. To do so, ACT uses ''generic" interceptors, which are added to CORBA applications at startup time and enable autonomic behavior to be introduced later at runtime. We have developed ACT/J, a prototype of ACT in Java. We describe a case study in which ACT/J is used to introduce three types of autonomic behavior (self-healing, self-optimization, and self-configuration) to a distributed surveillance application.Published by Elsevier B.V.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Transparent autonomization in CORBA

Sadjadi

McKinley

2009

Computer Networks

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“…These dynamically registered interceptors can be added in an unanticipated manner. Rule-based dynamic interceptors allow the request to be redirected to a different source or handed to either a number of local proxy components exporting the same interface as that of the destination server component [35] or to a generic local proxy component [36]. This generic proxy component can also be dynamically created in an unanticipated manner.…”

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“…Many policies will also contain some restrictions or guards confining the rule action to appropriate occasions. This event-conditionaction (ECA) format is standard for rule-based adaptation systems [4,5,6,8,9,16,19,33,34,35,36,40], where an adaptation management system is responsible for monitoring these events, evaluating the conditions and initiating the management action on the targeted managed object. In a policy-based dynamic adaptation system it should be possible to edit the rule set and have them re-interpreted to support the dynamic addition of new rules or changes in policy.…”

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Techniques for Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Services

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Cahill²,

Haahr³

2006

The Handbook of Mobile Middleware

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“…The software development tools and techniques produced by the ORCHID project will enable the designer to model software systems as digital organisms, observe their evolution under various conditions, and use the results to refine and improve the models. In related studies, McKinley, Cheng and colleagues have investigated several aspects of adaptive software design, In particular, the RAPIDware project [2] addresses high-assurance adaptive software, including programming language support [24,25], middleware support [26,27], cross-layer cooperation distributed applications [28,29], and techniques to maintain the state of the the system across adaptations [30,31].…”

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confidence: 99%