Middleware 2000: IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms and Open Distributed Processing New York, NY, USA, April 4–7, 2000 Proceedings

447 Pages·2000·6.481 MB·English

by  Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev, Roy Friedman, Roman Vitenberg (auth.), Joseph Sventek, Geoffrey Coulson (eds.)

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Middleware 2000
IFIP/ACM International Conference
on Distributed Systems Platforms
and Open Distributed Processing
NewYork, NY, USA, April 4-7, 2000
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Preface
Middlewareiseverywhere.Eversincetheadventofsocketsandothervirtual-
circuitabstractions,researchershavebeenlookingforwaystoincorporatehigher-
valueconceptsintodistributedsystemsplatforms.Mostdistributedapplications,
especially Internet applications, are now programmed using such middleware
platforms.
Prior to 1998,there were severalmajor conferences and workshops at which
research into middleware was reported, including ICODP (International Con-
ference on Open Distributed Processing), ICDP (International Conference on
Distributed Platforms) and SDNE (Services in Distributed and Networked En-
vironments). Middleware’98 was a synthesis of these three conferences.
Middleware 2000 continued the excellent tradition of Middleware’98.It pro-
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 se-
lected for inclusionin the technicalprogramof the conference.Every paper was
reviewedbyfourmembersoftheprogramcommittee.Thepaperswerejudgedac-
cordingtotheiroriginality,presentationquality,andrelevancetothe conference
topics. The accepted papers cover various subjects such as caching, reflection,
quality of service, and transactions.
We would like to express our deepest appreciation to the authors of the
submitted papers and the program committee members for their diligence in
reviewingthe submissions.We wouldalsolike to thank IFIP andACM fortheir
technical sponsorship and financial support, respectively. Finally, we would like
to thank the members of the steering committee and the other organizing com-
mittee members for their efforts towards making Middleware 2000 a successful
conference.
April 2000 Joseph Sventek and Geoffrey Coulson
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Organization
Middleware2000wasorganizedundertheauspicesofIFIPTC6WG6.1(Interna-
tionalFederationforInformationProcessing,TechnicalCommittee6[Communi-
cations Systems],WorkingGroup6.1 [Architecture andProtocolsfor Computer
Networks]).
Steering Committee
Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK
Jan de Meer, GMD-Fokus, Germany
Peter Honeyman, University of Michigan, USA
Guy Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium
Kerry Raymond, DSTC, Australia
Alexander Schill, TU Dresden, Germany
Jacob Slonim, Dalhousie University, Canada
Sponsoring Institutions
IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
http://www.ifip.or.at/
ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
http://www.acm.org
Supporting Companies
Agilent Technologies
http://www.agilent.com
BBN Technologies
http://www.bbn.com
Cisco Systems
http://www.cisco.com
IBM
http://www.ibm.com
Siemens
http://www.siemens.com
Preface VII
Organizing Committee
General Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt,
Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
Co-programChair: Joseph Sventek , Agilent Technologies, UK
Co-programChair: Geoffrey Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
Tutorials Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt,
Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
Publicity Chair: Guruduth Banavar,
IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Local Arrangements Chair: Francis Parr , IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Program Committee
Jean Bacon, Cambridge University, UK
Bela Ban, Cornell University, USA
Martin Chapman, ebeon, Ireland
Naranker Dulay, Imperial College, UK
Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo, Norway
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Teruo Higashino, Osaka University, Japan
Peter Honeyman, CITI, University of Michigan, USA
Doug Lea, SUNY at Oswego, USA
Peter Linington, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Silvano Maffeis, Softwired, Inc., Switzerland
Louise Moser, UCSB, USA
Elie Najm, ENST, France
Kerry Raymond, DSTC, Australia
Richard Soley, OMG, USA
Jean-BernardStefani, CNET, France
Robert Strom, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA
Robert Stroud, Newcastle University, UK
Maarten van Steen, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Gregor von Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
Table of Contents
Caching
Implementing a Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects ...........1
Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg
A Middleware System Which Intelligently Caches Query Results ...........24
Louis Degenaro, Arun Iyengar, Ilya Lipkind and Isabelle Rouvellou
Distributed Object Implementations for Interactive Applications ...........45
Vijaykumar Krishnaswamy, Ivan B. Ganev, Jaideep M. Dharap and
Mustaque Ahamad
Indirection
MIMO – An Infrastructure for Monitoring and Managing
Distributed Middleware Environments .....................................71
Gu¨nther Rackl, Markus Lindermeier, Michael Rudorfer and Bernd Su¨ss
Gateways for Accessing Fault Tolerance Domains ..........................88
P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith
An Architecture for Distributed OASIS Services ..........................104
John H. Hine, Walt Yao, Jean Bacon and Ken Moody
Reflection
Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration
with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB ....................................121
Fabio Kon, Manuel Rom´an, Ping Liu, Jina Mao, Tomonori Yamane,
Luiz Claudio Magalha˜es and Roy H. Campbell
Customization of Object Request Brokers by Application
Specific Policies ...........................................................144
Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen, Eddy Truyen, Frank Matthijs
and Wouter Joosen
The Role of Software Architecture in Constraining Adaptation
in Component-Based Middleware Platforms ...............................164
Gordon S. Blair, Lynne Blair, Val´erie Issarny, Petr Tuma
and Apostolos Zarras
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Messaging
Exploiting IP Multicast in Content-Based Publish-Subscribe Systems .....185
Lukasz Opyrchal, Mark Astley, Joshua Auerbach, Guruduth Banavar,
Robert Strom and Daniel Sturman
The Design and Performance of a Scalable ORB Architecture
for CORBA Asynchronous Messaging .....................................208
Alexander B. Arulanthu, Carlos O’Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt,
Michael Kircher and Jeff Parsons
A Publish/Subscribe CORBA Persistent State Service Prototype .........231
C. Liebig, M. Cilia, M. Betz and A. Buchmann
Quality of Service
QualProbes: Middleware QoS Profiling Services for Configuring
Adaptive Applications ....................................................256
Baochun Li and Klara Nahrstedt
Structuring QoS-Supporting Services with Smart Proxies .................273
Rainer Koster and Thorsten Kramp
Trading and Negotiating Stream Bindings ................................289
H. O. Rafaelsen and F. Eliassen
Transactions and Workflow
Strategies for Integrating Messaging and Distributed Object
Transactions ..............................................................308
Stefan Tai and Isabelle Rouvellou
A Distributed Object Oriented Framework to Offer Transactional
Support for Long Running Business Processes ............................331
Brian Bennett, Bill Hahm, Avraham Leff, Thomas Mikalsen,
Kevin Rasmus, James Rayfield and Isabelle Rouvellou
Active Middleware Services in a Decision Support System
for Managing Highly Available Distributed Resources .....................349
Sameh A. Fakhouri, William F. Jerome, Vijay K. Naik,
Ajay Raina and Pradeep Varma
Composition
The Design and Performance of a Pluggable Protocols Framework
for Real-Time Distributed Object Computing Middleware .................372
Carlos O’Ryan, Fred Kuhns, Douglas C. Schmidt, Ossama Othman
and Jeff Parsons