Extending RMI to support dynamic reconfiguration of distributed systems

Author

Chen, Xuejun

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

401

Lastpage

408

Abstract

By using dynamic reconfiguration, the flexibility, adaptability, and extensibility of distributed systems are enhanced. Treating interactions among components during dynamic reconfiguration is still one of the most crucial problems in this research area. This challenge should be met by middleware design and development. However, current standard middleware offers little support for dynamic reconfiguration of distributed systems. In this paper, we describe an extended Java RMI that supports efficiently dynamic reconfiguration of distributed systems. This extended Java RMI can automatically monitor and manipulate invocations between components during dynamic reconfiguration. Moreover, the extended Java RMI can automatically switch invocations from remote to local and vice versa.

Keywords

Java; application program interfaces; remote procedure calls; component interactions; distributed systems; dynamic reconfiguration; extended Java RMI; middleware; Computerized monitoring; Distributed computing; Java; Middleware; Personal digital assistants; Remote monitoring; Switches; Telematics; Vehicle dynamics; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2002. Proceedings. 22nd International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6927

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1585-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.2002.1022278

Filename

1022278