Towards just-in-time middleware architectures Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:822226, abstract = {Middleware becomes increasingly important in building distributed applications. Today, conventional middleware systems are designed, implemented, and packaged prior to their applications. We argue that with this middleware construction paradigm it is often difficult to meet the challenges imposed by application specific customization requirements. We propose to reverse this paradigm by automatically synthesizing middleware structures as the result of reasoning about the distribution needs of the user application of middleware. We term this type of post-postulated middleware Just-in-time middleware ( JiM ). In this paper, we present our initial design and present an evaluation of the JiM paradigm through Abacus, a CORBA middleware implementation based on the aspect oriented refactoring of an industrial strength object request broker. In addition, we present Arachne, the Abacus synthesizer, which integrates source analysis, feature inference, and implementation synthesis. Our evaluations show that, through automatic synthesis alone, Abacus is able to support diversified application domains with very flexible architectural compositions and versatile resource requirements as compared to conventional pre-postulated approaches.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Zhang, Charles and Gao, Dapeng and Jacobsen, Hans A.}, booktitle = {AOSD '05: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development}, citeulike-article-id = {822226}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1052898.1052904}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1052898.1052904}, doi = {10.1145/1052898.1052904}, isbn = {1-59593-042-6}, keywords = {architecture, aspects, middleware}, location = {Chicago, Illinois}, pages = {63--74}, posted-at = {2006-08-30 16:44:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Towards just-in-time middleware architectures}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1052898.1052904}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:822226 L3 - citeulike-article-id:822226 N2 - Middleware becomes increasingly important in building distributed applications. Today, conventional middleware systems are designed, implemented, and packaged prior to their applications. We argue that with this middleware construction paradigm it is often difficult to meet the challenges imposed by application specific customization requirements. We propose to reverse this paradigm by automatically synthesizing middleware structures as the result of reasoning about the distribution needs of the user application of middleware. We term this type of post-postulated middleware Just-in-time middleware ( JiM ). In this paper, we present our initial design and present an evaluation of the JiM paradigm through Abacus, a CORBA middleware implementation based on the aspect oriented refactoring of an industrial strength object request broker. In addition, we present Arachne, the Abacus synthesizer, which integrates source analysis, feature inference, and implementation synthesis. Our evaluations show that, through automatic synthesis alone, Abacus is able to support diversified application domains with very flexible architectural compositions and versatile resource requirements as compared to conventional pre-postulated approaches. CY - Chicago, Illinois SN - 1-59593-042-6 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 74 TI - Towards just-in-time middleware architectures PB - ACM T2 - AOSD '05: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development SP - 63 KW - architecture KW - aspects KW - middleware AU - Zhang, Charles AU - Gao, Dapeng AU - Jacobsen, Hans PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1052898.1052904 ER -