A CORBA-Based Architecture for Service Change Notification
EDOC '01 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Live Upgrades of CORBA Applications Using Object Replication
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
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HOTOS'03 Proceedings of the 9th conference on Hot Topics in Operating Systems - Volume 9
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Software evolution is one of the problematic areas in software management. In distributed environment, it is harder to tackle this problem because the dispersal of software makes it difficult to control the change as well as the propagation of the change to whoever that is using the evolving service. This paper presents a model to alleviate this problem by making different distributed service versions substitutable. The mechanism comprises a mediator that enables clients of an old-version service to successfully request onto an instance of a new-version service. The mediator considers functionality compatibility, rather than operation signature compatibility, when mediating the request. Thus instead of forcing change on the client side, this model allows flexible interoperability between different versions of client and server software. To support the model, existing distributed object architectures may require some extension to their type repositories to maintain mapping information necessary for the work of the mediator.