Transparently increasing RMI fault tolerance

  • Authors:
  • Diogo Reis;Hugo Miranda

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Lisbon, Lisboa;University of Lisbon, Lisboa

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Traditional Remote Procedure Call systems (RPCs) have a single point of failure at the server side. To address this issue, a number of approaches extend RPC syntax and semantic to provide fault tolerance. However, these solutions are neither transparent for the application programmer nor for the client. This paper describes FTRMI, a middleware platform that enhances the Java Remote Method Invocation (JRMI) with strong replica consistency, increasing fault tolerance. FTRMI is completely transparent for the client and does not require recoding on the server side.