Title :
CosNamingFT-a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service
Author :
Lung, Lau Cheuk ; da Silva, Joni ; Farines, Fraga e Jean-Marie ; Ogg, Michael ; Ricciardi, Aleta
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Controle e Microinf., Univ. Fed. de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper describes the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant CORBA naming service-CosNaming FT. Every CORBA object is accessed through its Interoperable Object Reference (IOR), which is registered with the CORBA name service. The name service therefore is a critical gateway to all objects in a distributed system; to avoid having a single point of failure, the name service should be made fault-tolerant. CosNamingFT uses the GroupPac package, a CORBA-compliant suite of protocols, to replicate the name server. GroupPac services are built from Common Object Services that function as building blocks to implement fault-tolerant applications. This paper aims to demonstrate the usefulness of some of these object services and to demonstrate the importance of open solutions issues in replicating distributed objects
Keywords :
distributed object management; fault tolerant computing; naming services; CORBA naming service; CosNamingFT; GroupPac package; Interoperable Object Reference; fault-tolerant; protocols; replicating distributed objects; Availability; Electrical capacitance tomography; Electronic switching systems; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Identity-based encryption; Information science; Lungs; Open systems; Registers;
Conference_Titel :
Reliable Distributed Systems, 1999. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0290-3
DOI :
10.1109/RELDIS.1999.805101
