Paper Info
Title
Spontaneous Container Services
Abstract
Container technology (e.g., Enterprise Java Beans) was designed for fixed network applications. This is unfortunate, because the ability of containers to adapt components transparently (e.g., with persistence and transactions) would be of great advantage in mobile computing. In this paper, we generalize the container model into a new software architecture, the spontaneous container. A spontaneous container allows to homogeneously extend all applications of a network, even if they spontaneously join or leave the network. In the paper we show how to build a spontaneous container by unifying different technologies into one coherent architecture: (i) dynamic aspect-oriented programming, (ii) containers, and (iii) infrastructures for mobile computing. Dynamic aspect-orientation makes a spontaneous container much more flexible than existing commercial containers. Inheriting the container programming model allows a single focus point for modifications for all applications in a network. Basing the overall architecture on dynamic service brokerage and discovery allows a seamless integration with existing infrastructures for both mobile and fixed computing. Following these ideas, we have built and evaluated a spontaneous container prototype that effectively and efficiently transforms applications within a network into a distributed system capable of transactional interaction, access control, and orthogonal persistence.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/978-3-540-45070-2_3
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile computer
Mobile computing,Programming paradigm,Aspect-oriented programming,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Business logic,JavaBeans,Software architecture,Software development,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2743
0302-9743
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
36
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrei Popovici130021.01
Gustavo Alonso25476612.79
Thomas R. Gross32807404.74