Application servers provide many functionalities commonly needed in the development of a complex distributed application. So far, the functionalities have mostly been developed an...
Daniel Oberle, Andreas Eberhart, Steffen Staab, Ra...
Replication is widely used in application server products to tolerate faults. An important challenge is to correctly coordinate replication and transaction execution for stateful ...
In this paper we present a methodology to analyze the behavior and performance of Java application servers using a performance analysis framework. This framework considers all lev...
Jordi Guitart, David Carrera, Jordi Torres, Eduard...
Studying any aspect of an application server with high availability requirements can become a tedious task when a continuous monitoring of the server status is necessary. The crea...
David Carrera, David Garcia, Jordi Torres, Eduard ...
Security in the access to web contents and the interaction with web sites is becoming one of the most important issues in Internet. Servers need to provide certain levels of secur...
This paper introduces a self-configuring architecture for scaling the database tier of dynamic content web servers. We use a unified approach to load and fault management based ...
Gokul Soundararajan, Kaloian Manassiev, Jin Chen, ...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Application servers have been widely adopted as distributed infrastructure (or middleware) for developing distributed systems. Current approaches for performance evaluation of app...
F. N. Souza, R. D. Arteiro, Nelson S. Rosa, Paulo ...
A general model of an E-business system comprising an Application Server and a Database engine is analyzed and evaluated. Incoming jobs, once admitted for processing, compete for ...
Giovanna Ferrari, Paul D. Ezhilchelvan, Isi Mitran...
In this paper, we present an approach for software rejuvenation based on automated self-healing techniques that can be easily applied to off-the-shelf Application Servers and Inte...