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An Implementation of the Lifecycle Service Object Mobility on CORBA

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Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT 1999)

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Standards such as CORBA are spreading in the development of large scale projects. However, CORBA lacks a mobility mechanism which is an interesting feature to deal with the system’s dynamics. In this paper, we propose a generic solution for object mobility in CORBA in the framework of the lifecycle service. Implementation at the object level handles the migration process using intermediary objects. A group mechanism is used to manage the object creation infrastructure so as to allow scalability. We have chosen a multi-agent auto-organizational group mechanism so as to reduce the administration task for a large sys- tem. The performance tests show that reasonable performance can be achieved using a high level generic and portable implementation.

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique de Besançon, 16, route de Gray, 25030, Besançon cedex, France

    Yvan Peter & Hervé Guyennet

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  1. Computing Center, 6 Lavrentiev Avenue, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    Victor Malyshkin

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Peter, Y., Guyennet, H. (1999). An Implementation of the Lifecycle Service Object Mobility on CORBA. In: Malyshkin, V. (eds) Parallel Computing Technologies. PaCT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1662. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48387-X_30

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