The Architecture of a Dynamically Updatable, Component-based System

Annotation: Combines dynamic component architectures (e.g., CORBA, EJB, DCOM) with dynamic software updating (e.g., Gupta and Jalote, Hicks) to create an architecture that supports both structural reconfigurations and non-stop updates to component implementations. Defines an ``update descriptor'' as a set of requests to add, remove, and/or update objects in the system, along with the replacement implementations (much like a package).

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{bialek02architecture,
   author = {Robert P. Bialek},
   title = {The Architecture of a Dynamically Updatable, Component-based
	System},
   booktitle = {Workshop on Dependable On-line Upgrading of Dist. Systems
	in conjunction with {COMPSAC} 2002},
   address = {Oxford, England},
   month = aug,
   year = {2002}
}