Software Aging and Rejuvenation in a SOAP-based Server

Author

Silva, Luis ; Madeira, Henrique ; Silva, João Gabriel

Author_Institution

Departamento Engenharia Informatica, Coimbra Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-26 July 2006

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

65

Abstract

Web-services and service-oriented architectures are gaining momentum in the area of distributed systems and Internet applications. However, as we increase the abstraction level of the applications we are also increasing the complexity of the underlying middleware. In this paper, we present a dependability benchmarking study to evaluate and compare the robustness of some of the most popular SOAP-RPC implementations that are intensively used in the industry. The study was focused on Apache Axis where we have observed a high susceptibility of software aging. Building on these results we propose a new SLA-oriented software rejuvenation technique that proved to be a simple way to increase the dependability of the SOAP-server, the degree of self-healing and to maintain a sustained level of performance in the applications

Keywords

Internet; access protocols; file servers; middleware; remote procedure calls; software maintenance; Internet; RPC implementation; SOAP-based server; Web-service; distributed system; middleware; remote procedure call; service-oriented architecture; software aging; software rejuvenation; Aging; Application software; Computer networks; Computer vision; Middleware; Operating systems; Production systems; Service oriented architecture; Simple object access protocol; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Computing and Applications, 2006. NCA 2006. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2640-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCA.2006.51

Filename

1659476