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High availability support in CORBA environments

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Distributed systems are a good basis to support highly available applications. In a distributed system there are multiple nodes which have independent behavior when failures arise, i.e., the failure of one node does not mean the failure of the others. So, if some support is given by the underlying system, applications can be made highly available decomposing them in components, and placing replicas of those components into independent nodes. This paper describes Hidra, a CORBA-based architecture, where object oriented distributed applications can increase their availability placing a number of object replicas in different domains or different nodes. The system provides failure detection and failure recovery mechanisms to maintain the applications' state consistent.

This work was partially supported by the CICYT (Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología) under project TIC96-0729.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Camí de Vera, s/n, 46071, Valencia, Spain

    Pablo Galdámez, Francesc D. Muñoz-Escoí & José M. Bernabéu-Aubán

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Galdámez, P., Muñoz-Escoí, F.D., Bernabéu-Aubán, J.M. (1997). High availability support in CORBA environments. In: Plášil, F., Jeffery, K.G. (eds) SOFSEM'97: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63774-5_120

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