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The design of a configurable and reconfigurable middleware platform

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Gordon S. Blair,

Michael Clarke,

Nikos ParlavantzasAuthors Info & Claims

Distributed Computing, Volume 15, Issue 2

Pages 109 - 126

https://doi.org/10.1007/s004460100064

Published: 01 April 2002 Publication History

Abstract

It is now well established that middleware platforms must accommodate an increasingly diverse range of requirements arising from the needs of both applications and underlying systems. Moreover, it is clear that to achieve this accommodation, platforms must be capable of both deployment-time configurability and run-time reconfigurability. This paper describes a middleware platform that addresses these requirements. The platform is built using a well-founded lightweight component model, uses reflective techniques to facilitate (re)configuration, and employs the notion of component frameworks to manage and constrain the scope of reconfiguration operations. Importantly, the platform also aims to achieve high performance and a level of standards conformance (e.g., with CORBA and COM). We demonstrate that, despite its high degree of configurability, the platform performs on a par with standard commercial CORBA ORBs.

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The design of a configurable and reconfigurable middleware platform
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Other architectures
      1. Reconfigurable computing
      2. Self-organizing autonomic computing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods

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