TY - CONF

T1 - A distributed architecture meta-model for self-managed middleware

AU - Grace, P.

AU - Coulson, G.

AU - Blair, Gordon S.

AU - Porter, B.

PY - 2006/11

Y1 - 2006/11

N2 - Openness and adaptation are the fundamental properties of reflective middleware platforms. Self-managed or autonomic systems require this behaviour, and therefore, reflective middleware platforms are ideally suited to the support of such systems. However, new classes of self-managed applications increasingly require support for co-coordinated, distributed reconfiguration, and there is limited provision for this in current reflective middleware approaches. In this paper, we document a general, flexible architecture meta-model for the safe and valid adaptation of components that make up the implementation of co-ordinating middleware nodes distributed across peer devices. We also investigate the flexibility of this approach in supporting different reconfiguration types in different environmental conditions.

AB - Openness and adaptation are the fundamental properties of reflective middleware platforms. Self-managed or autonomic systems require this behaviour, and therefore, reflective middleware platforms are ideally suited to the support of such systems. However, new classes of self-managed applications increasingly require support for co-coordinated, distributed reconfiguration, and there is limited provision for this in current reflective middleware approaches. In this paper, we document a general, flexible architecture meta-model for the safe and valid adaptation of components that make up the implementation of co-ordinating middleware nodes distributed across peer devices. We also investigate the flexibility of this approach in supporting different reconfiguration types in different environmental conditions.

KW - cs_eprint_id

KW - 1695 cs_uid

KW - 361

M3 - Conference paper

T2 - ARM '06: The 5th workshop on Adaptive and reflective middleware (ARM '06)

Y2 - 1 January 1900

ER -