Dynamic support to transactional remote invocations over multiple transports

ABSTRACT

XActor is a distributed transaction manager that affords transactional remote invocations over an open-ended set of transports. Its support to transactional interactions is dynamic, in the sense that the transaction manager fully exploits a collection of RMI mechanisms and transport protocols that grows with the addition of plug-in modules to running instances of XActor. A distributed transaction can employ any combination of the transports that the currently installed plug-ins provide. Two-phase commit (logging and failure recovery included) runs over any such combination of transports. Aimed at server-side application containers, XActor can be integrated with those systems in a way that allows its plug-in modules to take advantage of the dynamic deployment facilities of the container environment.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.7 Organization and Design
          Subjects: Distributed systems

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.1 Process Management
      D.4.4 Communications Management

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.4 Systems
          Subjects: Transaction processing

General Terms:
Design, Management