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Dynamically Loading Mobile/Cloud Assemblies

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Distributed applications that span mobile devices, computing clusters, and cloud services, require robust and flexible mechanisms for dynamically loading code. This paper describes lady: a system that augments the .net platform with a highly reliable mechanism for resolving and loading assemblies, and arranges for safe execution of partially trusted code. Key benefits of lady are the low latency and high availability achieved through its novel integration with dns.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    lady is an acronym for Loading Assemblies Dynamically.

  2. 2.

    Both .exe and .dll files have the same Portable Executable file format.

  3. 3.

    NuGet is a package management system, closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio.

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    In this example, the call happens in the static constructor of the ConfigParser class.

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    Robert Pettersen, Håvard D. Johansen, Steffen Viken Valvåg & Dag Johansen

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Pettersen, R., Johansen, H.D., Valvåg, S.V., Johansen, D. (2017). Dynamically Loading Mobile/Cloud Assemblies. In: Helfert, M., Ferguson, D., Méndez Muñoz, V., Cardoso, J. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 740. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62594-2_9

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