Abstract
With the escalating complexity, aggregation, and integration of software in enterprise, mobile, and pervasive arenas, it becomes increasingly difficult to compose, deploy, and operate applications that span a distributed and diverse software landscape. Furthermore, the increasing aggregation of software artifacts, including platforms, frameworks, components, services, and tools, lack a standard metadata description capability that hinders rapid and flexible distribution, deployment, and operation. This paper presents a general approach, realized with the FAST Framework, to improving the development, deployment, and operation of distributed applications that consist of diverse software artifacts. Application specification and composition is based on configuration queries that flexibly combine modules and a container that non- intrusively manages module lifecycles. The results show benefits with regard to simplified configurability, enhanced reuse via XML-based description propagation, improved distributed-application-provisioning intervals vs. local configurations, as well as applicability to Grid, Web Services, and MDA.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Anderson, P., Beckett, G., Kavoussanakis, K., Mecheneau, G., Toft, P.: Experiences and Challenges of Large-Scale System Configuration (2003), http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/gridweaver/
Oberleitner, J., Gschwind, T., Jazayeri, M.: The Vienna Component Framework: Enabling Composition Across Component Models. In: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), IEEE Press, Los Alamitos (2003)
Burmester, S., Giese, H., Niere, J., Tichy, M., Wadsack, J., Wagner, R., Wendehals, L., Zuendorf, A.: Tool Integration at the Meta-Model Level within the FUJABA Tool Suite. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Tool-Integration in System Development (TIS), ESEC/FSE 2003 Workshop 3. Helsinki, Finland (2003)
Lüer, C., van der Hoek, A.: Composition Environments for Deployable Software Components. Technical Report 02-18. Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (2002)
Goldsack, P., Guijarro, J., Lain, A., Mecheneau, G., Murray, P., Toft, P.: SmartFrog: Configuration and Automatic Ignition of Distributed Applications. In: HP OVUA (2003)
Rio, J.: http://rio.jini.org/
Object Management Group: Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) - A Technical Perspective, ormsc/2001-07-01 edition (2001)
Gokhale, A., Schmidt, D., Natarajan, B., Wang, N.: Applying Model-Integrated Computing to Component Middleware and Enterprise Applications. Special issue of Communications of ACM on Enterprise Components, Services, and Business Rules 45(10) (October 2002)
Wang, N., Natarajan, B., Schmidt, D., Gokhale, A.: Using Model-Integrated Computing to Compose Web Services for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Applications. , http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/webservices.pdf
Gokhale, A., Natarjan, B., Schmidt, D., Wang, N., Neema, S., Bapty, T., Parsons, J., Gray, J., Nechypurenko, A.: CoSMIC: An MDA Generative Tool for Distributed Real-time and Embdedded Component Middleware and Applications. In: Proceedings of the OOPSLA 2002 Workshop on Generative Techniques in the Context of Model Driven Architecture, November 2002, ACM, New York (2002)
Kon, F., Roman, M., Liu, P., Mao, J., Yamane, T., Magalhaes, L., Campbell, R.: Monitoring, Security, and Dynamic Configuration with the dynamicTAO Reflective ORB. In: Proceedings of the Middleware 2000 Conference, April 2000, ACM/IFIP (2000)
Kiczales, G., Lamping, J., Mendhekar, A., Maeda, C., Lopes, C., Loingtier, J., Irwin, J.: Aspect-Oriented Programming. In: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Object- Oriented Programming (June 1997)
Foster, I., Kesselman, C., Tuecke, S.: The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations. International Journal of Supercomputer Applications and High Performance Computing 15(3) (2001)
WS-Resource Framework (WSRF), http://www.globus.org/wsrf/
JXTA: http://www.jxta.org
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Oberhauser, R. (2004). An Approach to Flexible Application Composition in a Diverse Software Landscape. In: Jeckle, M., Kowalczyk, R., Braun, P. (eds) Grid Services Engineering and Management. GSEM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3270. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30190-5_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30190-5_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-23301-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-30190-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive