Applying the VVM kernel to Flexible Web Caches

Ian Piumarta , Frédéric Ogel (1) , Carine Baillarguet (1) , Bertil Folliot (1)

1 SRC - Systèmes répartis et coopératifs

The VVM (virtual virtual machine) is a systematic approach to adaptability and reconfigurability for portable, object-oriented applications based on byte-coded languages such as Java and Smalltalk. The main objectives of the VVM are (i) to allow adaptation of language and system according to a particular application domain; (ii) to provide extensibility by allowing a live execution environment to evolve according to new protocols or language standards; and (iii) to provide a common substrate on which to achieve true interoperability between different languages. On the way to implement a VVM we have already implemented VVM1 (and its application to active networks) and VVM2 (and its application to flexible Web cache and distributed observation). The VVM2 is a highly-flexible language kernel which consists of a minimal, complete programming language in which the most important goal is to maximise the amount of reflective access and intercession that are possible, at the lowest possible software level.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Ian Piumarta, Frédéric Ogel, Carine Baillarguet, Bertil Folliot. Applying the VVM kernel to Flexible Web Caches. IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, May 2001, Schloss Elmau, Germany. pp.155, ⟨10.1109/HOTOS.2001.990094⟩. ⟨hal-01570710⟩