DEFINING AN UNIFIED META MODELING ARCHITECTURE FOR DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Mariam Dibo, Noureddine Belkhatir

2010

Abstract

Deployment is a complex process gathering activities to make applications operational after development, Today, the components approach and the distribution make deployment a very complex process. Many deployment tools exist but they are often built in an ad hoc way; i.e. specific to a technology or to an architecture and, covering partially the deployment life cycle. Hence there is an increased need for new techniques and tools to manage these systems. In this work, we focus on the deployment process describing a framework called UDeploy. UDeploy (Generic Deployment framework) is a framework based on a generic engine which permits firstly the carrying out of the planning process from meta-information related to the application and the infrastructure; secondly, the generation of specific deployment descriptors related to the application and the environment (i.e. the machines connected to a network where a software system is deployed); and finally the execution of a plan produced by means of deployment strategies. The work presented in this paper is focused on the presentation of a generic deployment architecture driven by meta-models and their transformations. In this respect, UDeploy is independent from any specific technology and, also from any specific platform characteristic.

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Dibo M. and Belkhatir N. (2010). DEFINING AN UNIFIED META MODELING ARCHITECTURE FOR DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-04-1, pages 316-321. DOI: 10.5220/0002981403160321


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Mariam Dibo and Noureddine Belkhatir},
title={DEFINING AN UNIFIED META MODELING ARCHITECTURE FOR DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={316-321},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002981403160321},
isbn={978-989-8425-04-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - DEFINING AN UNIFIED META MODELING ARCHITECTURE FOR DEPLOYMENT OF DISTRIBUTED COMPONENTS-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8425-04-1
AU - Dibo M.
AU - Belkhatir N.
PY - 2010
SP - 316
EP - 321
DO - 10.5220/0002981403160321