Abstract. Predicting the performance of component-based applications is difficult due to the complexity of the underlying component technology. This problem is exacerbated when a m...
The J2EE platform provides a variety of options for making business data persistent using DBMS technology. However, the integration with existing backend database systems has prov...
Abstract. Clusters have become the de facto platform to scale J2EE application servers. Each tier of the server uses group communication to maintain consistency between replicated ...
Abstract. Replication has been widely used in J2EE servers for reliability and scalability. There are two properties which are important for a stateful J2EE application server. Fir...
Abstract. A challenging software engineering problem is the design and implementation of component-based (CB) applications that can meet specified performance requirements. Our PPC...