An Upgrade Mechanism Based on Publish/Subscribe Interaction

Annotation: Advocates the use of publish/subscribe as an interaction style for upgradeable component-based systems. Publish/subscribe induces less coupling than request-response (e.g., RPC), since components do not have to interact synchronously and do not have to know each other. Therefore, components can be replaced (more) easily; a configuration manager (CM) manages these replacements. Authors do not consider upgrades that require state transfer between components or upgrades to the CM.

BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{chaudron02upgrade,
   author = {M. R. V. Chaudron and F. van de Laar},
   title = {An Upgrade Mechanism Based on Publish/Subscribe Interaction},
   booktitle = {Workshop on Dependable On-line Upgrading of Dist. Systems
	in conjunction with {COMPSAC} 2002},
   address = {Oxford, England},
   month = aug,
   year = {2002}
}