Full autonomic repair for distributed applications. (7th February 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boyer, Fabienne; de Palma, Noel; Gruber, Olivier; Sicard, Sylvain
• Is Part Of: Software, practice & experience. Volume 44:Number 9(2014)
• Page Start: 1027
• Page End: 1045
• Publication Date: 2013-02-07
• Subjects: Computer software -- Periodicals; Computer programming -- Periodicals; Computer programs -- Periodicals; 005.3
• DOI: 10.1002/spe.2185
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0038-0644

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="spe2185-abs-0001"> <title>SUMMARY</title> <p id="spe2185-para-0001">Grid or cloud environments leverage the need for self‐repair solutions that resist and repair their own failures, something not yet ensured by existing solutions. In this paper, we describe the <sc>JADE</sc> Autonomic Repair System for legacy applications deployed in a grid or cloud environment. <sc>JADE</sc> is based on three main design principles. First, legacy applications are wrapped with Java objects, obtaining a uniform set of management operations over the heterogeneous legacy management capabilities. Second, to gain full autonomy, we adopt a replicated design combined with a recursive approach that makes <sc>JADE</sc> appear to <sc>JADE</sc> as any distributed application it manages and repairs. Finally, to scale, we rely on tiling the distributed environment and structuring our repair system per tile. To our knowledge, our repair system is the only one that is designed to scale and is fully autonomic, repairing not only the failures of the managed system but also its own. Our repair system has been tested in various realistic scenarios. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.</p> </abstract>