Juggler: A Management Service for CORBA Object Groups
Since its initial specification, CORBA has become a de facto standard
for the development of object-oriented distributed applications.
In spite of some
important features such as support for interoperability and heterogeneity,
the CORBA specification neither addresses object replication nor reliable
communication between objects yet, which are key components to provide fault
tolerance for distributed object systems.
Some research projects have proposed and explored a few approaches that
incorporate fault tolerance mechanisms in CORBA but most of the systems
developed offer a rather basic support for managing groups of object
replicas. Our work builds upon one of these systems, called
OGS[Felber98].
On the top of it, we are developing Juggler, a distributed
service that provides means for flexible and automatic management of CORBA
replicated objects.
Last modified: Mon May 8 11:50:32 BRT 2000