Authors: A. Kupsys, S. Pleisch, A. Schiper, M. Wiesmann

Title: Towards JMS-Compliant Group Communication

Date: 2003-09-04 14:40:59

Abstract:
Group communication provides communication primitives with various
semantics and their use greatly simplifies the development of highly
available services. However, despite tremendous advances in research
and numerous prototypes, group communication stays confined to small
niches and academic prototypes. In contrast, message-oriented
middleware such as the Java Messaging Service (JMS) is widely used,
and has become a de-facto standard. We believe that the lack of
standard interfaces is the reason that hinders the deployment of group
communication systems.

Since JMS is well-established, an interesting solution is to map group
communication primitives onto the JMS API. This requires to adapt the
traditional specifications of group communication in order to take
into account the features of JMS. The resulting group communication
API, together with corresponding specifications, defines group
communication primitives compatible with the JMS syntax and semantics.

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