Mobile JikesRVM: A framework to support transparent Java thread migration

Today's complex applications must face the distribution of data and code among different network nodes. Computation in distributed contexts is demanding increasingly powerful languages and n environments, able to provide programmers with appropriate abstractions and tools. Java is a wide-spread language that allows developers to build complex software, even distributed, but it cannot handle the migration of computations (i.e. threads), due to intrinsic limitations of many traditional JVMs. After analyzing the approaches in literature, this paper presents our thread migration framework (called Mobile JikesRVM), implemented on top of the IBM Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM): exploiting some of the innovative techniques in the JikesRVM, we implemented an extension of its scheduler that allows applications to easily capture the state of a running thread and makes it possible to restore it elsewhere (i.e. on a different hardware architecture or operating system), but still with a ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: SCP
• Authors: Raffaele Quitadamo, Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi
• Keywords: Mobile JikesRVM, SCP 2008, Thread Migration Framework, Virtual Machine