Scaling up web applications requires distribution of load across multiple application servers and across multiple database servers. Distributing load across multiple application se...
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a methodology for designing software systems by integrating loosely coupled services. Compared to traditional distributed object-o...
Ziyang Duan, Subhra Bose, Charles A. Shoniregun, P...
In this paper, we argue for the power of providing a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for resource discovery, a global namespace, remote p...
Amin Vahdat, Thomas E. Anderson, Michael Dahlin, E...
Abstract—Application servers are a core component of a multitier architecture that has become the industry standard for building scalable client-server applications. A client com...
Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherkasova, Kivanc M. Ozonat,...
Today’s Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies such as Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight, are designed around the client-server paradigm and cannot easily take advantage of repli...