Paper Info
Title
Scalability Evaluation of the Replication Support of JOnAS, an Industrial J2EE Application Server
Abstract
Today most web applications are deployed on multi-tier architectures, such as those based on J2EE. These applications need to be highly available and scalable. Replication is used to achieve these properties. Most J2EE application servers provide some form of replication. This paper reports on the performance evaluation of the replication protocol included in the JOnAS J2EE application server. The protocol attains high availability in the middle tier in an affordable manner and guarantees consistency across tiers and exactly-once semantics in the advent of failures. The evaluation has been performed using an industrial benchmark (SPECjAppServer2004) and quantifies the scalability of the approach with different databases enriched with some profiling to identify the bottlenecks under different loads and replica configurations. The results of the evaluation show that the replication approach can scale to a few replicas when using a performant database server.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/EDCC.2010.16
EDCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Java,database management systems,protocols,JOnAS,Web applications,industrial J2EE application server,multitier architectures,replication protocol,replication support,scalability evaluation,J2EE,fault-tolerance,multi-tier architectures,replication,scalability
Computer science,Server,Fault tolerance,Web application,Database server,High availability,Service-oriented architecture,Application server,Distributed computing,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alberto Paz100.34
Francisco Perez-Sorrosal21537.83
Marta Patino-Martinez324712.02
Ricardo Jimenez-Peris429916.43