Middleware 2001

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Java

   1. Automated Analysis of Java Message Service Providers

      • Dean Kuo, Doug Palmer

      Pages 1-14

   2. Efficient Object Caching for Distributed Java RMI Applications

      • John Eberhard, Anand Tripathi

      Pages 15-35

   3. Entity Bean A, B, C’s: Enterprise Java Beans Commit Options and Caching

      • Paul Brebner, Shuping Ran

      Pages 36-55

3. Mobility

   1. A WAP-Based Session Layer Supporting Distributed Applications in Nomadic Environments

      • Timm Reinstorf, Rainer Ruggaber, Jochen Seitz, Martina Zitterbart

      Pages 56-76

   2. Middleware for Reactive Components: An Integrated Use of Context, Roles, and Event Based Coordination

      • Andry Rakotonirainy, Jaga Indulska, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky

      Pages 77-98

   3. Experiments in Composing Proxy Audio Services for Mobile Users

      • Philip K. McKinley, Udiyan I. Padmanabhan, Nandagopal Ancha

      Pages 99-120

4. Distributed Abstractions

   1. Thread Transparency in Information Flow Middleware

      • Rainer Koster, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonathan Walpole, Calton Pu

      Pages 121-140

   2. Abstracting Services in a Heterogeneous Environment

      • Salah Sadou, Gautier Koscielny, Hafedh Mili

      Pages 141-159

   3. An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware

      • Michael Clarke, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nikos Parlavantzas

      Pages 160-178

5. Reliability

   1. Rule-Based Transactional Object Migration over a Reflective Middleware

      • Damián Arregui, François Pacull, Jutta Willamowski

      Pages 179-196

   2. The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions

      • Iain Houston, Mark C. Little, Ian Robinson, Santosh K. Shrivastava, Stuart M. Wheater

      Pages 197-215

   3. Failure Mode Analysis of CORBA Service Implementations

      • Eric Marsden, Jean-Charles Fabre

      Pages 216-231

6. Home & Office

   1. ROOM-BRIDGE: Vertically Configurable Network Architecture and Real-Time Middleware for Interoperability between Ubiquitous Consumer Devices in the Home

      • Soon Ju Kang, Jun Ho Park, Sung Ho Park

      Pages 232-251

   2. Reducing the Energy Usage of Office Applications

      • Jason Flinn, Eyal de Lara, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Dan S. Wallach, Willy Zwaenepoel

      Pages 252-272

   3. System Software for Audio and Visual Networked Home Appliances on Commodity Operating Systems

      • Tatsuo Nakajima

      Pages 273-294

7. Scalability

   1. Access Control and Trust in the Use of Widely Distributed Services

      • Jean Bacon, Ken Moody, Walt Yao

      Pages 295-310

   2. Preserving Causality in a Scalable Message-Oriented Middleware

      • Philippe Laumay, Eric Bruneton, Noël De Palma, Sacha Krakowiak

      Pages 311-328

   3. Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

      • Antony Rowstron, Peter Druschel

      Pages 329-350

8. Quality of Service

   1. Providing QoS Customization in Distributed Object Systems

      • Jun He, Matti A. Hiltunen, Mohan Rajagopalan, Richard D. Schlichting

      Pages 351-372

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in November 2001.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Java, mobility, distributed abstractions, reliability, home and office, scalability, and quality of service.

• CORBA
• Component-Based Systems
• Distributed Applications
• Distributed Computing
• Distributed Object Systems
• Distributed Programming
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• Middleware
• Mobile Computing
• Networking
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Quality of Servies (QoS)
• Scala

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Rachid Guerraoui

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