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FlexiNet: A Flexible, Component-Oriented Middleware System

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The FlexiNet Platform is a Java middleware platform that features a component based internal structure with strong emphasis placed on reflection and introspection at all levels. This allows programmers to tailor the platform for a particular application domain or deployment scenario by assembling strongly typed components. In this paper we give an overview of the FlexiNet architecture, highlighting how its approach differs from other middleware architectures, and illustrate the benefits that result from the new approach.

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  1. Citrix Systems (Cambridge) Ltd, Poseidon House Castle Park, Cambridge, CB3 0RD, UK

    Richard Hayton & Andrew Herbert

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  1. Grenoble Laboratoire SIRAC, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Université Joseph fourier, 655 avenue de l’Europe, 38330, Monbonnot Saint-Martin, France

    Sacha Krakowiak

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Santosh Shrivastava

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Hayton, R., Herbert, A. (2000). FlexiNet: A Flexible, Component-Oriented Middleware System. In: Krakowiak, S., Shrivastava, S. (eds) Advances in Distributed Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1752. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46475-1_21

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