OpenWebServer: an adaptive Web server using software patterns

Author

Suzuki, Junichi ; Yamamoto, Yoshikazu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Keio Univ., Japan

Volume

37

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

52

Abstract

The explosive growth of the Web requires servers to be extensible and configurable. This article describes our adaptive Web server, OpenWebServer, which uses the Reflection architectural pattern. The server supports the dynamic adoption of functionality, such as introducing additional protocols, modifying execution policies, and tuning system performance. This is achieved by specifying and coordinating metaobjects that represent various aspects within the Web server. We present a Java version of OpenWebServer, and describe its design using Reflection and other design patterns: Singleton, Bridge, Mediator, Observer, and Decorator. These patterns provide a better-factored design and allow the Web server to evolve continually beyond static and monolithic servers

Keywords

Java; adaptive systems; information resources; meta data; network servers; open systems; protocols; software engineering; Bridge; Decorator; Java; Mediator; Observer; OpenWebServer; Reflection architectural pattern; Singleton; adaptive Web server; design patterns; execution policies modification; metaobjects coordination; metaobjects specification; protocols; software patterns; system performance tuning; Content management; Environmental management; Explosives; Internet; Java; Network servers; Protocols; Reflection; System performance; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.755449

Filename

755449