Hermes: A Distributed Event-Based Middleware Architecture

  • Authors:
  • Peter R. Pietzuch;Jean Bacon

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCSW '02 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we argue that there is a need for an event-based middleware to build large-scale distributed systems. Existing publish/subscribe systems still have limitations compared to invocation-based middlewares. We introduce Hermes, a novel event-based distributed middleware architecture that follows a type- and attribute-based publish/subscribe model. It centres around the notion of an event type and supports features commonly known fromobject-oriented languages like type hierarchies and super-type subscriptions. A scalable routing algorithm using an overlay routing network is presented that avoids global broadcasts by creating rendezvous nodes. Fault-tolerance mechanisms that can cope with different kinds of failures in the middleware are integrated with the routing algorithm resulting in a scalable and robust system.