Object by value transfer mechanisms for obligation policy enforcement object loading

Adequate architecture and technology can significantly improve the adaptability and performance of the policy-based management systems. We present how the policy enforcement point operation can be improved by applying the "object by value" transfer mechanisms. Policy enforcement object transferred and loaded into the policy enforcement point as a stateful object can support the adaptable behaviour of the point. We experimented with the two standard object by using the value technologies such as CORBA valuetypes and Java serialization on RMl. Examples in this paper refer to the CORBA valuetypes only.