J-Orchestra: Enhancing Java programs with distribution capabilities
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Classifying Java class transformations for pervasive virtualized access
GPCE '09 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
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Adding distributed capabilities to existing programs has come to the forefront of software evolution. As a standard Java distributed technology, applets offer the advantages of being easily deployable over web browsers and requiring little to no explicit distributed programming. Yet applets are inflexible: they download remote code and run it only on the client machine. We present appletizing: a semi-automatic approach to transforming a Java GUI application into a client-server application, in which the client runs as a Java applet that communicates with the server through RMI. To enable appletizing, we have expanded the capabilities of J-Orchestra, our automatic partitioning system that takes as input a Java application in bytecode format and transforms it into a distributed application, running across multiple standard JVMs. We discuss the motivation, benefits, and J-Orchestra support for appletizing, and validate our approach via a set of case studies and associated benchmarks.