Non-functional Oriented Dynamic Integration Of Distributed Components

✍ Scribed by Ahmed Saleh; George R.R. Justo; Stephen C. Winter

• Book ID: 104445469
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 176 KB
• Volume: 68
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1571-0661
• DOI: 10.1016/s1571-0661(05)80380-9

✦ Synopsis

Building distributed systems from scratch is known as one of the most difficult and time consuming process in software engineering. A great deal of progress has been made in the development of middleware and techniques to facilitate the process of distributed systems through integrating reusable components and customizing middleware. However, most of these solutions tend to focus on the functional aspects of the components and how to adapt their behavior according to their needs. Although the non-functional properties of the services are equally important, because of the difficulties in representing and controlling them, they are usually neglected. This paper investigates the problem of distributed systems' non-functional properties and describes a framework that presents a solution to the problem. The framework is based on the idea of defining the non-functional properties of the services at the early stages of the design and incorporating such properties within the architecture to ease the process of managing the system at run time.