A distributed architecture meta-model for self-managed middleware

  • Authors:

  • Paul Grace;Geoff Coulson;Gordon S. Blair;Barry Porter

  • Affiliations:

  • Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th workshop on Adaptive and reflective middleware (ARM '06)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Openness and adaptation are the fundamental properties of reflective middleware platforms. Self-managed or autonomic systems require this behaviour, and therefore, reflective middleware platforms are ideally suited to the support of such systems. However, new classes of self-managed applications increasingly require support for co-coordinated, distributed reconfiguration, and there is limited provision for this in current reflective middleware approaches. In this paper, we document a general, flexible architecture meta-model for the safe and valid adaptation of components that make up the implementation of co-ordinating middleware nodes distributed across peer devices. We also investigate the flexibility of this approach in supporting different reconfiguration types in different environmental conditions.