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FRIENDS is a software-based architecture for implementing fault-tolerant and, to some extent, secure applications. This architecture is composed of sub-systems and libraries of metaobjects. Transparency and separation of concerns is provided not only to the application programmer but also to the programmers implementing metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication and distribution. Common services required for implementing metaobjects are provided by the sub-systems. Metaobjects are implemented using object-oriented techniques and can be reused and customised according to the application needs, the operational environment and its related fault assumptions. Flexibility is increased by a recursive use of metaobjects. Examples and experiments are also described.
This work was partially supported by the DeVa Esprit project n∘20072.
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Fabre, JC., Pérennou, T. (1996). Friends: A flexible architecture for implementing fault tolerant and secure distributed applications. In: Hlawiczka, A., Silva, J.G., Simoncini, L. (eds) Dependable Computing — EDCC-2. EDCC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61772-8_27
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