The Eternal system: an architecture for enterprise applications

Author

Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M. ; Narasimhan, P. ; Tewksbury, L.A. ; Kalogeraki, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

214

Lastpage

222

Abstract

The Eternal system supports networked enterprise applications that must operate continuously 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Based on the CORBA standard, Eternal provides object replication not only for fault tolerance but also for live software upgrades, as well as resource management facilities. Through the use of interceptors, Eternal renders the object replication transparent to the application, as well as to the ORB and to the operating system. Thus, Eternal works with commercial off-the-shelf CORBA ORBs and standard unmodified operating systems. Eternal handles the difficult issues of object replication, fault tolerance, live upgrades and resource management, thereby allowing the application programmers to focus on the applications

Keywords

business communication; business data processing; distributed object management; operating systems (computers); resource allocation; software fault tolerance; CORBA standard; Eternal system; application programmers; commercial off-the-shelf CORBA ORBs; fault tolerance; interceptors; live software upgrades; networked enterprise applications; object replication; operating system; resource management facilities; standard unmodified operating systems; Application software; Business; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Manufacturing; Operating systems; Resource management; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 1999. EDOC '99. Proceedings. Third International

Conference_Location

Mannheim

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5784-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDOC.1999.792065

Filename

792065