Middleware 2001 IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg, Germany, November 12-16, 2001, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Middleware 2001, held in Heidelberg, Germany, in November 2001.
The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 116 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Java, mobility, distributed abstractions, reliability, home and office, scalability, and quality of service.

Java.- Automated Analysis of Java Message Service Providers.- Efficient Object Caching for Distributed Java RMI Applications.- Entity Bean A, B, C’s: Enterprise Java Beans Commit Options and Caching.- Mobility.- A WAP-Based Session Layer Supporting Distributed Applications in Nomadic Environments.- Middleware for Reactive Components: An Integrated Use of Context, Roles, and Event Based Coordination.- Experiments in Composing Proxy Audio Services for Mobile Users.- Distributed Abstractions.- Thread Transparency in Information Flow Middleware.- Abstracting Services in a Heterogeneous Environment.- An Efficient Component Model for the Construction of Adaptive Middleware.- Reliability.- Rule-Based Transactional Object Migration over a Reflective Middleware.- The CORBA Activity Service Framework for Supporting Extended Transactions.- Failure Mode Analysis of CORBA Service Implementations.- Home & Office.- ROOM-BRIDGE: Vertically Configurable Network Architecture and Real-Time Middleware for Interoperability between Ubiquitous Consumer Devices in the Home.- Reducing the Energy Usage of Office Applications.- System Software for Audio and Visual Networked Home Appliances on Commodity Operating Systems.- Scalability.- Access Control and Trust in the Use of Widely Distributed Services.- Preserving Causality in a Scalable Message-Oriented Middleware.- Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems.- Quality of Service.- Providing QoS Customization in Distributed Object Systems.- 2K Q+: An Integrated Approach of QoS Compilation and Reconfigurable, Component-Based Run-Time Middleware for the Unified QoS Management Framework.