POSAML: A Visual Modeling Framework for Middleware Provisioning

Effective provisioning of next generation distributed applications hosted on diverse middleware platforms incurs significant challenges due to the applications’ growing complexity and quality of service (QoS) requirements. An effective provisioning of the middleware platform includes a composition and configuration of the middleware services that meets the application QoS requirements under expected workloads. Current techniques for middleware provisioning tend to use non-intuitive, low-level and technology-specific approaches, which are tedious, error prone, non reusable and not amenable to ease of QoS validation. Additionally, most often the configuration activities of the middleware platform tend to be totally decoupled from the QoS validation stages resulting in an iterative trial-and-error process between the two phases. This paper describes the design of a visual modeling language called POSAML (Patterns Oriented Software Architecture Modeling Language) and associated tool...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Dimple Kaul, Arundhati Kogekar, Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Jeffrey G. Gray, Swapna S. Gokhale
• Keywords: Biometrics, HICSS 2007, Middleware Platforms, Provisioning, QoS Validation, System Sciences