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[PhD Thesis] Component replication in application servers

Lookup NU author(s): Achmad Kistijantoro

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Abstract

Three-tier middleware architecture is commonly used for hosting large-scale distributed applications. Typically the application is decomposed into three layers: front-end, middle tier and back-end. Front-end (‘Web server’) is responsible for handling user interactions and acts as a client of the middle tier, while back-end provides storage facilities for applications. Middle tier (‘Application server’) is usually the place where all computations are performed, so this layer provides middleware services for transactions, security and so forth. The benefit of this architecture is that it allows flexible configuration such as partitioning and clustering for improved performance and scalability. On this architecture, availability measures, such as replication, can be introduced in each tier in an application specific manner. Among the three tier described above, the availability of the middle tier and the back-end tier are the most important, as these tiers provide the computation and the data for the applications. This thesis investigates how replication for availability can be incorporated within the middle and back-end tiers. The replication mechanisms must guarantee exactly once execution of user request despite failures of application and database servers. The thesis develops an approach that requires enhancements to the middle tier only for supporting replication of both the tiers. The design, implementation and performance evaluation of such a middle tier based replication scheme for multi-database transactions on a widely deployed open source application server (JBoss) are presented.


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Author(s): Kistijantoro AI

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

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Year: 2006

Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

Notes: British Lending Library DSC stock location number: DXN104536


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