Specifying and using a partitionable group communication service
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
e-Transactions: End-to-End Reliability for Three-Tier Architectures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Advanced Collaboration Techniques between Java Objects Distributed on Clusters
IWCC '01 Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advanced Environments, Tools, and Applications for Cluster Computing-Revised Papers
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
We present a specification for Jgroup, an extension to the Java distributed object model based on group communication. Jgroup is particularly suited for developing dependable network applications that are to be deployed in environments subject to voluntary or involuntary network partitionings. Jgroup adapts view synchrony semantics, typically defined for message-based group communication systems, to remote method invocations on objects. Unlike existing object group systems that mix two different paradigms (message passing within groups and remote method invocations outside), Jgroup presents a single uniform programming interface based entirely on remote method invocations. Furthermore, Jgroup extends view synchrony semantics that govern interactions within the group to external clients of the group without requiring them to become full-fledged members. In this manner, the higher costs associated with providing strong guarantees on method invocations are limited to (typically small number of) group members while guarantees for clients can be light-weight and thus incur smaller costs.