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Migration of running application code is considered a very attractive and desired mechanism to improve application performance, resource sharing, self-adaptability, etc. This mechanism seems to be even more important nowadays, considering the growing interest in the area of mobile computing and mobile networks.
This paper briefly presents a migration mechanism for a CORBA Component Model platform. We discuss general issues related to migration of running code, further elaborated in the context of CCM. We also propose an extension to the original CCM model which provides interfaces to implement migration.
The paper presents the most important problems which appeared during implementation of a prototype facility and it discusses possible solutions. One of the most fundamental issues related to mobility of running code is the residual dependency problem. The intention of the work is not to provide a solution to this (possibly unsolvable) problem, but to propose an approach which would make programmers aware of its existence. Thus, the paper allows readers to make more conscious decisions when designing their components. The paper ends with an evaluation of the prototype implementation on top of OpenCCM, an open source Java implementation of the CORBA Component Model.
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- Home Agent
- Object Management Group
- Migration Mechanism
- Incoming Request
- Source Host
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Cała, J. (2007). Migration in CORBA Component Model. In: Indulska, J., Raymond, K. (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems. DAIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72883-2_11
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