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An assessment of middleware platforms for accessing remote services (2010)
| Venue: | IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC |
| Citations: | 5 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kwon10anassessment,
author = {Young-woo Kwon and Eli Tilevich and William R. Cook},
title = {An assessment of middleware platforms for accessing remote services},
booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC},
year = {2010},
pages = {482--489}
}
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Abstract
Due to the shift from software-as-a-product (SaaP) to software-as-a-service (SaaS), software components that were developed to run in a single address space must in-creasingly be accessed remotely across the network. Dis-tribution middleware is frequently used to facilitate this transition. Yet a range of middleware platforms exist, and there are few existing guidelines to help the programmer choose an appropriate middleware platform to achieve de-sired goals for performance, expressiveness, and reliabil-ity. To address this limitation, in this paper we describe a case study of transitioning an Open Service Gateway Initia-tive (OSGi) service from local to remote access. Our case study compares five remote versions of this service, con-structed using different distribution middleware platforms. These platforms are implemented by widely-used commer-cial technologies or have been proposed as improvements on the state of the art. In particular, we implemented a service-oriented version of our own Remote Batch Invoca-tion abstraction. We compare and contrast these implemen-tations in terms of their respective performance, expressive-ness, and reliability. Our results can help remote service programmers make informed decisions when choosing mid-dleware platforms for their applications. 1
Keyphrases
middleware platform remote service case study single address space different distribution middleware platform widely-used commer-cial technology appropriate middleware platform service programmer software component informed decision open service gateway initia-tive de-sired goal remote version dis-tribution middleware mid-dleware platform respective performance service-oriented version remote batch invoca-tion abstraction
