A Dynamic Reconfiguration Platform Based on Distributed Component Technology CCM

Abstract

Dynamic reconfiguration research aims to solve the problem of the evolution of the long running or mission critical systems at runtime. CCM, as one of the distributed component technology, makes it very easy to implement dynamic reconfiguration through its assembly, deployment and container mechanisms. Instead of designing a general dynamic reconfiguration algorithm which is really hard to be general and efficient, we have defined a group of basic dynamic reconfiguration mechanisms by extending CCM. The people familiar with the semantic of the application, will utilize these mechanisms to describe specific dynamic reconfiguration algorithm in XML file exactly. Obviously, this dynamic reconfiguration platform based on CCM provides generality and adaptability.