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International Workshop on Software Configuration Management

International Workshop on Software Configuration Management

SCM 2001, SCM 2003: Software Configuration Management pp 231–244Cite as

A Lightweight Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications

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Abstract

We describe Lira, a lightweight infrastructure for managing dynamic reconfiguration that applies and extends the concepts of network management to component-based, distributed software systems. Lira is designed to perform both component-level reconfigurations and scalable application-level reconfigurations, the former through agents associated with individual components and the latter through a hierarchy of managers. Agents are programmed on a component-by-component basis to respond to reconfiguration requests appropriate for that component. Managers embody the logic for monitoring the state of one or more components, and for determining when and how to execute reconfiguration activities. A simple protocol based on SNMP is used for communication among managers and agents.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita’ dell’Aquila, via Vetoio, 1, 67100, L’Aquila, Italy

    Marco Castaldi & Paola Inverardi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0430, USA

    Antonio Carzaniga & Alexander L. Wolf

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  1. Informatik III, RWTH Aachen, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Bernhard Westfechtel

  2. School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, 444 Computer Science Building, Irvine, CA, 92697-3425, USA

    André van der Hoek

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Castaldi, M., Carzaniga, A., Inverardi, P., Wolf, A.L. (2003). A Lightweight Infrastructure for Reconfiguring Applications. In: Westfechtel, B., van der Hoek, A. (eds) Software Configuration Management. SCM SCM 2001 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2649. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39195-9_17

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