A J2EE application server is composed of multi-tiers: a web frontend, a servlet server, optionally an EJB server and a database. Clusters allow the replication of each tier instan...
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...
Traditionally, an application has to be stopped to be adapted. This approach is not suitable for critical systems that have to be non-stop and highly available like bank, internet...
TimesTen Performance Software's Front-Tier product is an application-tier data cache that inter-operates with disk-based relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to ac...
: Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. These operations often have to be performed in environments where no communication infrastruc...