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Component Management in a Dynamic Architecture

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Modern distributed programming environments commonly restrict programmers to a single form of inter-component configuration of an application. However, these distributed applications are prone to evolve drastically during their lifetime, to take into account the new users requirements, the technological evolution, or to improve the performance of the application. Evolution involves changes related to the application architecture, the software implementation, or the physical location of software components in a distributed environment during the application execution. In this paper, we describe an original approach for the dynamic application management which fulfills the above requirements with minimal perturbation. In order to prove the advantage of our approach, we have implemented a prototype of this service by extending a CORBA environment.

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  1. GEMPLUS Research Lab, B.P. 100, 13881, Gémenos Cedex, France

    Marie-Claude Pellegrini

  2. Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques, 930 route des Colles, BP 145, 06903, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

    Michel Riveill

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Pellegrini, MC., Riveill, M. Component Management in a Dynamic Architecture. The Journal of Supercomputing 24, 151–159 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021798709301

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