Abstract
Aspect oriented programming (AOP) is a promising technique for implementing fault tolerance. Still there exist few actual implementations. One reason is that most present day AOP languages do not offer the level of control needed. This paper addresses the problem by defining a representative set of fault tolerance mechanisms. The set can be used for evaluating the feasibility of languages and for finding needs for improvements. It has been used to evaluate the AspectC++ language, and a number of limitations have been revealed. AspectC++ was then extended in order to address this. It is also demonstrated how reusable fault tolerance mechanisms can be built using aspect oriented C++, and the advantages compared to using standard C++ are discussed.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Elrad, T., Filman, R.E., Bader, A.: Aspect-oriented programming: introduction. Communications of the ACM 44(10), 29–32 (2001)
Spinczyk, O., Gal, A., Schröder-Preikschat, W.: AspectC++: An Aspect-Oriented Extension to C++. In: TOOLS Pacific 2002. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, Sydney, Australia, pp. 18–21 (2002)
Rodgers, P., Wellings, A.J.: An incremental recovery cache supporting software fault tolerance. In: González Harbour, M., la de Puente, J.A. (eds.) Ada-Europe 1999. LNCS, vol. 1622, pp. 385–396. Springer, Heidelberg (1999)
Damm, A.: The effectiveness of software error-detection mechanisms in real-time operating systems. FTCS Digest of Papers. In: 16th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems, Washington DC, USA (1986)
Randell, B.: System structure for software fault tolerance. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering SE 1(2), 220–232 (1975)
Oh, N., Shirvani, P., McCluskey, E.J.: Control-Flow Checking by Software Signatures. Center for Reliable Computing, Stanford Univ., CA, CRC-TR-00-4 (CSL TR num 00-800) (2000)
Alexandersson, R., Öhman, P., Ivarsson, M.: Aspect oriented software implemented node level fault tolerance. In: SEA 2005. Ninth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Phoenix AZ, USA (2005)
Alexandersson, R.: Techniques for software implemented fault tolerance. Technical report 22L, ISSN 1652-876X, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2006)
Fabry, J.: A Framework for Replication of Objects using Aspect-Oriented Programming. Phd Thesis, University of Brussel (1998)
Herrero, J.L., Sanchez, F., Toro, M.: Fault tolerance as an aspect using JReplica. In: Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Workshop on Future trends of Distributed Computing Systems, 31 October-2 November, 2001, pp. 201–207. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2001)
Szentivanyi, D., Nadjm-Tehrani, S.: Aspects for improvement of performance in fault-tolerant software. In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, 3-5 March, pp. 283–291 (2004)
Ruiz, J.C., Killijian, M.O., Fabre, J.C., Thévenod-Fosse, P.: Reflective Fault-Tolerant Systems: From Experience to Challenges. IEEE Transactions On Computers 52(2), 237–254 (2003)
Taiani, F., Fabre, J.C., Killijian, M.O.: A multi-level meta-object protocol for fault-tolerance in complex architectures. In: DSN 2005. Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2005, 28 June-July 1, pp. 270–279 (2005)
Xu, J., Randell, B., Zorzo, A.F.: Implementing Software-Fault Tolerance in C++ and Open C++. In: Min, Y., Tang, D. (eds.) CADTED 1996. Proceedings of the 1996 International Workshop on Computer-Aided Design, Test, and Evaluation for Dependability, Beijing China, pp. 224–229 (1996)
Cheynet, P., Nicolescu, B., Velazco, R., Rebaudengo, M., Sonza Reorda, M., Violante, M.: Experimentally evaluating an automatic approach for generating safety-critical software with respect to transient errors. IEEE Transaction on Nuclear Science 47(6), 2231–2236 (2000)
Lisboa, M.L.B.: A new trend on the development of fault-tolerant applications: software meta-level architectures. In: IFIP 1998. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Dependable Computing and its Applications (1998)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Alexandersson, R., Öhman, P. (2007). Implementing Fault Tolerance Using Aspect Oriented Programming. In: Bondavalli, A., Brasileiro, F., Rajsbaum, S. (eds) Dependable Computing. LADC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4746. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75294-3_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75294-3_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-75293-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-75294-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)