Research on dynamic update transaction for Java classes
ZHANG Shi1, HUANG Linpeng2
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1.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007, China; 2.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China;
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Published
05 Sep 2007
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05 Sep 2007
Abstract
Dynamic software updating is critical for many systems that must provide continuous service. In addition, the Java language is gaining increasing popularity in developing distributed systems. Most previous works on updating are concerned with safely updating one class every time. It has many limitations on updating classes, such as not allowing deleting methods invoked in other classes. In this paper, the update transaction is purposed to dynamically update the class set, and some of its properties are discussed, such as atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID). Then the property of type-safety is proven formally. In order to update without changing the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the Java programming language, this paper proposes a new implementation method. The method makes use of the Java class loading mechanism and reflection mechanism. We also present how to design an updatable Java program and a Java updating program. At the end of the paper, an experiment is made for analysis.
ZHANG Shi, HUANG Linpeng.
Research on dynamic update transaction for Java classes. Front. Comput. Sci., 2007, 1(3): 313‒321 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-007-0030-3
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