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Object mobility in large scale systems

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Standards such as CORBA are spreading in the development of large scale projects. However, CORBA lacks a mobility mechanism which is an interesting feature to deal with system dynamics. In this paper, we propose a generic solution for object mobility in CORBA in the framework of its lifecycle service. Implementation at the object level handles the migration process using intermediary objects. A group mechanism is used to manage the object creation infrastructure so as to allow scalability. We have chosen a multi-agent auto-organizational group mechanism to reduce the administrative task for a large system. Performance tests show that reasonable performance can be achieved using a high level generic and portable implementation.

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  1. Laboratoire TRIGONE, Equipe NOCE, CUEEP, Université de Lille 1, Cité Scientifique, 59655, Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

    Yvan Peter

  2. Laboratoire d'Informatique de Besançon, route de Gray, 25030, Besançon Cedex, France

    Hervé Guyennet

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Peter, Y., Guyennet, H. Object mobility in large scale systems. Cluster Computing 3, 75–82 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019019918184

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