Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Totem: a fault-tolerant multicast group communication system
Communications of the ACM
Horus: a flexible group communication system
Communications of the ACM
A Metaobject Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems: The FRIENDS Approach
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Building adaptive systems using ensemble
Software—Practice & Experience - Special issue on multiprocessor operating systems
System support for object groups
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue high availability in CORBA
Consistent object replication in the eternal system
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue high availability in CORBA
The implementation of a CORBA object group service
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue high availability in CORBA
Six misconceptions about reliable distributed computing
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGOPS European workshop on Support for composing distributed applications
Gateways for accessing fault tolerance domains
IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed systems platforms
Common Object Services Specification: Atandt/NCR, Bnr Europe Limited, Digital Equipment Corporation ..
Reliable Distributed Computing with the ISIS Toolkit
Reliable Distributed Computing with the ISIS Toolkit
Delta Four: A Generic Architecture for Dependable Distributed Computing
Delta Four: A Generic Architecture for Dependable Distributed Computing
Reconciling Replication and Transactions for the End-to-End Reliability of CORBA Applications
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Replicating CORBA objects: a marriage between active and passive replication
Proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II
Design and implemantation of a CORBA fault-tolerant object group service
Proceedings of the IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems II
An Interoperable Replication Logic for CORBA Systems
DOA '00 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
DOORS: Towards High-Performance Fault Tolerant CORBA
DOA '00 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
AQuA: An Adaptive Architecture that Provides Dependable Distributed Objects
SRDS '98 Proceedings of the The 17th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Using Semantic Knowledge of Distributed Objects to Increase Reliability and Availability
WORDS '01 Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS'01)
Lightweight Fault Tolerance in CORBA
DOA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications
Checkpointing and Its Applications
FTCS '95 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Providing Support for Survivable CORBA Applications with the Immune System
ICDCS '99 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
FTS: A High-Performance CORBA Fault-Tolerance Service
WORDS '02 Proceedings of the The Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS 2002)
Transparent fault tolerance for corba
Transparent fault tolerance for corba
What service replication middleware can learn from object replication middleware
Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2006)
Schizophrenic middleware support for fault tolerance
Proceedings of the 2006 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada
Got predictability?: experiences with fault-tolerant middleware
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware companion
Replica placement for high availability in distributed stream processing systems
Proceedings of the second international conference on Distributed event-based systems
Jgroup-ARM: a distributed object group platform with autonomous replication management
Software—Practice & Experience
ISAS '07 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Service Availability
Fault-tolerant middleware and the magical 1%
Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 2005 International Conference on Middleware
ICCOMP'09 Proceedings of the WSEAES 13th international conference on Computers
AIC'09 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied informatics and communications
Future Generation Computer Systems
A survey of fault tolerant CORBA systems
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM Confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS - Volume Part I
Towards middleware for fault-tolerance in distributed real-time and embedded systems
DAIS'08 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
Using object replication for building a dependable version control system
DAIS'08 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
NGITS'09 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Next generation information technologies and systems
A taxonomy of software architecture-based reliability efforts
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
WSEAS Transactions on Computers
A fault-tolerant architecture for transportation information services of e-government
AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Advances in computer science and information technology
Distributed middleware reliability and fault tolerance support in system S
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Distributed event-based system
A multi-agent architectural pattern for wrapping off-the-shelf components
KES-AMSTA'11 Proceedings of the 5th KES international conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
Towards reliable intelligent transportation systems for e-government
EGOVIS'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Electronic government and the information systems perspective
The strategy of proactive-reactive intrusion tolerance recovery based on hierarchical model
WISM'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Web information systems and mining - Volume Part I
Replication-aware transactions: how to roll a transaction over failures
Ada-Europe'06 Proceedings of the 11th Ada-Europe international conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Extending the UMIOP specification for reliable multicast in CORBA
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
Integrating the ROMIOP and ETF specifications for atomic multicast in CORBA
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - Volume >Part I
Fault-tolerant replication based on fragmented objects
DAIS'06 Proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Autonomic resources management of CORBA based systems for transportation with an agent
ICCSA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part IV
Design and implementation of survivable network systems
ICIC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Advances in Intelligent Computing - Volume Part II
Traceability and timeliness in messaging middleware
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
Formalising reconciliation in partitionable networks with distributed services
Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-Tolerant Systems
Fault-Tolerant middleware and the magical 1%
Middleware'05 Proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th international conference on Middleware
Agent-driven integration architecture for component-based software development
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VIII
A study of unpredictability in fault-tolerant middleware
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A portable interceptor mechanism for SOAP frameworks
Computer Standards & Interfaces
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It has been almost a decade since the earliest reliable CORBA implementation and, despite the adoption of the Fault-Tolerant CORBA (FT-CORBA) standard by the Object Management Group, CORBA is still not considered the preferred platform for building dependable distributed applications. Among the obstacles to FT-CORBA's widespread deployment are the complexity of the new standard, the lack of understanding in implementing and deploying reliable CORBA applications, and the fact that current FT--CORBA do not lend themselves readily to complex, real-world applications. In this paper, we candidly share our independent experiences as developers of two distinct reliable CORBA infrastructures (OGS and Eternal) and as contributors to the FT-CORBA standardization process. Our objective is to reveal the intricacies, challenges, and strategies in developing fault-tolerant CORBA systems, including our own. Starting with an overview of the new FT-CORBA standard, we discuss its limitations, along with techniques for best exploiting it. We reflect on the difficulties that we have encountered in building dependable CORBA systems, the solutions that we developed to address these challenges, and the lessons that we learned. Finally, we highlight some of the open issues, such as nondeterminism and partitioning, that remain to be resolved.