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The paper presents the Jade framework for the construction of self-repairable cluster systems. Jade adopts an architecture-based approach to management, and maintains a causally connected view of the software architecture of the managed system, itself configured and manipulated as a component-based structure. Self-repair is achieved through a combination of component-based design, reflection and active replication of the management subsystem. The paper illustrates the benefits of the Jade approach through its application to a JEE Web application server. Specifically, our evaluation shows that the Jade framework adds negligible overhead to the operation of a managed system, and that Jade achieves short MTTR even with a simple repair policy.
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Boyer, F., De Palma, N., Gruber, O., Sicard, S., Stefani, JB. (2009). A Self-repair Architecture for Cluster Systems. In: de Lemos, R., Fabre, JC., Gacek, C., Gadducci, F., ter Beek, M. (eds) Architecting Dependable Systems VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5835. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10248-6_6
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