Developing distributed applications is a difficult task due to three major problems: the
complexity of programming interprocess communication, the need to support services …

The case for reflective middleware Page 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM June 2002/Vol.
45, No. 6 33 Recent advances in distributed, mobile, and ubiquitous systems demand new …

Conventional middleware systems fail to address important issues related to dynamism.
Modern computer systems have to deal not only with heterogeneity in the underlying …

It is now well established that middleware platforms must accommodate an increasingly
diverse range of requirements arising from the needs of both applications and underlying …

Driven by the emergence of pervasive computing and the increasing need for self-managed
systems, many approaches have been proposed for building software that can dynamically …

Applying model-integrated computing to component middleware and enterprise applications
Page 1 By Aniruddha Gokhale, Douglas C. Schmidt, Balachandran Natarajan, and Nanbor Wang …

Dependence management in component-based distributed systems Page 1 . . @ The authors
present a generic model for reifying dependencies in distributed component systems. They …

We discuss the design and implementation of Egida, an object-oriented toolkit designed to
support transparent rollback-recovery. Egida exports a simple specification language that …

The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both
reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application requirements …

Modern computing environments face both low-frequency infrastructural changes, such as
software and hardware upgrades, and frequent changes, such as uctuations in the network …