Lessons learned in building a fault-tolerant CORBA system

Author

Narasimhan, P. ; Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Software Res. Int., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

44

Abstract

The Eternal system pioneered the interception approach to providing transparent fault tolerance for CORBA, which allows it to make a CORBA application reliable with little or no modification to the application or the ORB. The design and implementation of the Eternal system has influenced industrial practices by providing the basis for the specifications of the fault-tolerant CORBA standard that the Object Management Group adopted. We discuss our experience in developing the Eternal system, with particular emphasis on the challenges that we encountered and the lessons that we learned.

Keywords

client-server systems; distributed object management; multi-threading; software fault tolerance; Eternal system; fault-tolerant CORBA standard; fault-tolerant CORBA system; interception approach; specifications; Application software; Computer languages; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Internet; Middleware; Programming profession; Protocols; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Systems and Networks, 2002. DSN 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1101-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSN.2002.1028884

Filename

1028884