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A survey on approaches for addressing dependability attributes in the OSGi service platform

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Didier DonsezAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 35, Issue 3

Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/1764810.1764818

Published: 11 May 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The OSGi service platform is being used in software industry as the de facto middleware for developing and deploying modular Java applications, using SOA principles in centralized solutions. OSGi provides a dynamic platform where components and services can be deployed and undeployed at runtime, attracting the attention of both commercial and research projects. Although the platform is used in fields with different purposes (e.g. experimentally used in healthcare, commercially used in application servers) but where dependability should be a pre-requisite for applications, it is a fact that the OSGi technology does not provide a dependable platform for executing applications with such needs. Different research efforts try to address dependability attributes (availability, integrity, maintainability, reliability, safety, and confidentiality) in the OSGi service platform, but not necessarily all of these attributes are completely covered or explicitly addressed in the textual references. We provide a brief survey on recent research efforts that try to improve dependability in the OSGi service platform. We analyze and identify which attributes are addressed on each approach, and provide a discussion on the employed techniques, similarities and results achieved on such approaches. Al-though this survey remains limited to one technology (OSGi), the problematic as well as all the employed techniques in the analyzed efforts are pertinent to other service and component-based systems.

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Index Terms

A survey on approaches for addressing dependability attributes in the OSGi service platform
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Reliability
2. Software and its engineering

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 35, Issue 3

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DOI:10.1145/1764810

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Schomakers EBiermann HZiefle M(2020)Understanding Privacy and Trust in Smart Home EnvironmentsHCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust10.1007/978-3-030-50309-3_34(513-532)Online publication date: 19-Jul-2020
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Almakadmeh KAl Qahmouss G(2015)A Comprehensive Survey of System Dependability for Real Time Embedded SoftwareProceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing, Security and Advanced Communication10.1145/2816839.2816917(1-7)Online publication date: 23-Nov-2015
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Bardin JLalanda PEscoffier CMurphy ALopes CFisher K(2011)Improving user experience by infusing web technologies into desktopsProceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion10.1145/2048147.2048219(225-236)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2048147.2048219

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