Synopses & Reviews
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing, Middleware 2000, held in New York, NY, USA, in April 2000. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 70 submissions. The book offers an excellent state-of-the-art report on research in the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. The papers are organized in sections on caching, indirection, reflection, messaging, quality of service, transactions and workflow, and composition.
Synopsis
Middleware is everywhere. Ever since the advent of sockets and other virtu- circuit abstractions, researchers have been looking for ways to incorporate high- value concepts into distributed systems platforms. Most distributed applications, especially Internet applications, are now programmed using such middleware platforms. Prior to 1998, there were several major conferences and workshops at which research into middleware was reported, including ICODP (International C- ference on Open Distributed Processing), ICDP (International Conference on Distributed Platforms) and SDNE (Services in Distributed and Networked - vironments). Middleware 98was a synthesis of these three conferences. Middleware 2000 continued the excellent tradition of Middleware 98. It p- vided a single venue for reporting state-of-the-art results in the provision of distributed systems platforms. The focus of Middleware 2000 was the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future networked environments. Among the 70 initial submissions to Middleware 2000, 21 papers were - lected for inclusion in the technical program of the conference. Every paper was reviewed by four members of the program committee. The papers were judged - cording to their originality, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference topics. The accepted papers cover various subjects such as caching, re?ection, quality of service, and transactions."
Table of Contents
Implementing a caching service for distributed CORBA objects / Gregory V. Chockler ... et al. -- A middleware system which intelligently caches query results / Louis Degenaro ... et al. -- Distributed object implementations for interactive applications / Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy ... et al. -- MIMO-- an infrastructure for monitoring and managing distributed middleware environments / Gèunther Rackl ... et al. -- Gateways for accessing fault tolerance domains / P. Narasimhan, L.E. Moser and P.M. Melliar-Smith -- An architecture for distributed OASIS services / John H. Hine ... et al. --Monitoring, security, and dynamic configuration with the dynamicTAO reflective ORB / Fabio Kon ... et al. -- Customization of object request brokers by application specific policies / Bo N²rregaard J²rgensen ... et al. -- The role of software architecture in constraining adaptation in component-based middleware platforms / Gordon S. Blair ... et al. -- Exploiting IP multicast in content-based publish-subscribe systems / Lukasz Opyrchal ... et al. -- The design and performance of a scalable ORB architecture for CORBA asynchronous messaging / Alexander B. Arulanthu ... et al. -- A publish/subscribe CORBA persistent state service prototype / C. Liebig ... et al. -- QualProbes: middleware QoS profiling services for configuring adaptive applications / Baochun Li and Klara Nahrstedt -- Structuring QoS-supporting services with smart proxies / Rainer Koster and Thorsten Kramp -- Trading and negotiating stream bindings / H.O. Rafaelsen and F. Elissaen -- Strategies for integrating messaging and distributed object transactions / Stefan Tai and Isabelle Rouvellou -- A distributed object oriented framework to offer transactional support for long running business processes / Brian Bennett ... et al. -- Active middleware services in a decision support system for managing highly available distributed resources / Sameh A. Fakhouri ... et al. -- The design and performance of a pluggable protocols framework for real-time distributed object computing middleware / Carlos O'Ryan ... et al. -- Customizing IDL mappings and ORB protocols / Girish Welling and Maximilian Ott -- Hierarchical architecture for real-time adaptive resource management / Ionut Cardei ... et al..