Paper Info
Title
Using object replication for building a dependable version control system
Abstract
Object-oriented technologies are frequently used to design and implement distributed applications. Object replication is a well-established approach to increase the dependability for such applications. Generic replication infrastructures often fail to meet non-standard application-specific requirements such as support for client-side computing. Our FTflex replication infrastructure combines the fragmented object model with semantic annotations in order to customize and optimize replication mechanisms, and thus provides a more flexible replication infrastructure. This paper presents DiGit, a replicated version control system based on the architecture of Git. DiGit is implemented with the help of the FTflex infrastructure for object replication. The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, the paper evaluates the fitness of our replication framework for a specific, complex application. We identify two advantages of the replication infrastructure: the ability to provide client-side code as a conceptually integral part of a remote service, and support for an optimized protocol for remote interaction. As a second contribution, the paper presents a powerful replicated version control system and shows the lessons learned from using object replication in such a system.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
DAIS
replication infrastructure,version control system,flexible replication infrastructure,ftflex replication infrastructure,dependable version control system,ftflex infrastructure,replication framework,generic replication,optimize replication mechanism,fragmented object model,object replication,computer science,object model,distributed application
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
5053
0302-9743
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-68639-8
1
0.41
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rüdiger Kapitza173359.72
Peter Baumann223141.02
Hans P. Reiser316926.19