In the thesis we proposed a jini resource management architecture that enhances jini leasing approach. Jini introduces in a lease concept that handles partial failure of distributed applications, and also supports service resource allocation. However, current lease model does not lay a stress on fairness and priority issues on the resource allocation.
On the other way, current lookup service lacks the capability to handle sophisticated service assignment, such as load balance issue, nonfunctional requirement matching and so on. In this thesis, we focus on the scenario in which the jini federation is a set of resources offering one or more types of replicated services. We aim to solve the deficiency described above by providing an architecture to enhance current lease model. This architecture describes an approach using java’s dynamic proxies, which allow resources in a jini federation to be managed by a central resource manager. By putting the functionality
into jini lookup service, the approach is generic and transparent for both service and client.

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