Affiliations: [a] Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany. Tel.: +49 2241 143438; Fax: +49 2241 1443438; E-mail: [email protected] | [b] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, Hölderlinstrasse 3, D-57068 Siegen, Germany. Tel.: +49 271 7403314; Fax: +49 271 7403315; E-mail: [email protected] | [c] Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, D-35032 Marburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 6421 2821568; Fax: +49 6421 2821573; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract: The heterogeneous nature of the Internet makes it difficult to deploy and compose an application on demand. Promising remedies are self-managing Internet application environments that maintain themselves without user or application intervention. In this paper, an approach to realize a cross-platform Internet application environment is presented which supports the autonomic deployment, composition, hosting, customization and interconnection of on demand Internet applications and is dynamically deployed itself. The proposed approach is based on an integration middleware called “crossware” that does not replace existing middleware but operates as a mediator to uniformly interact with heterogeneous platform installations, resources and features. A self-managing cross-platform application environment is built on top of it to support the relevant properties of on demand Internet applications. The benefits of the proposal are demonstrated by presenting an Internet Application Workbench and an Internet Application Factory for local and remote application hosting, respectively.
