Annotation Markers for runtime replication protocol selection
Original version
In 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, volume 5060 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 496-506, Oslo, Norway, June 2008. Springer Verlag - - The final publication is available at www.springerlink.comAbstract
This paper presents an architecture enabling developers to easily and
flexibly assign replication protocols simply by annotating individual server methods.
This avoids using costly replication protocols for all object methods, e.g.
read-only methods can use less costly protocols, reserving the costly replication
protocols for update methods. The architecture has been implemented in the
Jgroup/ARM middleware, and enables addition of new replication protocols without
modifying the core toolkit. It also supports runtime selection of replication
protocol for individual methods. This can be used to support self-optimization of
protocol selection by optimizing for the most appropriate configuration under a
given system load.