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Carp@ — A Reflection Based Tool for Observing Jini Services

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Reflection and Software Engineering (OORaSE 1999)

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Jini™ offers the basic technology to develop distributed systems where the participating clients, services and their interactions can adapt dynamically to a changing environment.1 To monitor the internal processes in such a system a reflection mechanism is necessary. However, the existing reflection mechanisms in Java emerged to be too weak to supply enough information for a suitable management of such a system. Therefore these mechanisms had to be extended by a reflective meta level upon Jini. The tool Carp@ (implemented itself as Jini system) is designed to visualize, analyze and control dynamic and distributed Jini systems. This is done by developing a meta architecture upon a Jini system that reflects the running Jini system.

This paper describes the meta architecture, the tool to monitor it and reports the gained experiences together with their implied consequences.

Jini and all Jini-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, D-80290, München, Germany

    Michael Fahrmair, Chris Salzmann & Maurice Schoenmakers

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  2. Universitàa di Genova - DISI, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146, Genova, Italy

    Walter Cazzola

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Robert J. Stroud

  4. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milano, Italy

    Francesco Tisato

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Fahrmair, M., Salzmann, C., Schoenmakers, M. (2000). Carp@ — A Reflection Based Tool for Observing Jini Services. In: Cazzola, W., Stroud, R.J., Tisato, F. (eds) Reflection and Software Engineering. OORaSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45046-7_12

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