A QoS-enable failure detection framework for J2EE application server

As a basic reliability guarantee technology in distributed systems, failure detection provides the ability of timely detecting the liveliness of runtime systems. Effective failure detection is very important to J2EE application server (JAS), the leading middleware in Web computing environment, and it also needs to meet the requirements of reconfiguration, flexibility and adaptability. Based on the QoS (quality of service) specification of failure detector, this paper presents a QoS-enable failure detection framework for JAS, which satisfies the requirements of dynamically adjusting qualities and flexible integration of failure detectors. The work has been implemented in OnceAS application server that is developed by Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The experiments show that the framework can provide good QoS of failure detection in JAS.