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Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing

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In the context of cloud computing, one server is usually responsible to run multiple applications and a single application is spread across multiple servers. On the one hand, the applications need to be able to determine how the cloud environment should handle its execution, or even the execution of each one of its components. Yet, on the other hand, the applications should be decoupled from the middleware that executes them, enabling each one to evolve independently. Based on this scenario, it is possible to state that metadata-based frameworks are a suitable option for the interaction between the application and the services provided by the cloud, since it decouples the application from the environment and allows a transparent individual configuration of each class. The goal of this chapter is to describe the essence of metadata-based frameworks and how they can be applied to cloud computing. It brings several examples of cloud computing frameworks and describes some design practices for the framework structure, scenarios that are suitable for the metadata-based approach and best practices for metadata configuration. As a result, after reading this chapter, the reader should be able to understand the basic functioning of a metadata-based framework and why it is suitable for cloud applications.

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  1. Laboratory of Computing and Applied Mathematics (LAC), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), 515, 12227-010, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil

    Eduardo Martins Guerra

  2. Department of Computer Science, Aeronautical Institute of Technology (ITA), Praça Marechal Eduardo Gomes, 50 Vila das Acassias, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ednelson Oliveira

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Guerra, E.M., Oliveira, E. (2013). Metadata-Based Frameworks in the Context of Cloud Computing. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5107-4_1

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