@inproceedings{candea2003jagr,
author = {Candea, George and Kiciman, Emre and Zhang, Steve and Keyani, Pedram and Fox, Armando},
title = {JAGR: An Autonomous Self-Recovering Application Server},
booktitle = {The 5th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services},
year = {2003},
month = {June},
abstract = {This paper demonstrates that the dependability of generic, evolving J2EE applications can be enhanced through a combination of a few recovery-oriented techniques. Our goal is to reduce downtime by automatically and efficiently recovering from a broad class of transient software failures without having to modify applications. We describe here the integration of three new techniques into JBoss, an open-source J2EE application server. The resulting system is JAGR---JBoss with Application-Generic Recovery---a self-recovering execution platform.

JAGR combines application-generic failure-path inference (AFPI), path-based failure detection, and micro-reboots. AFPI uses controlled fault injection and observation to infer paths that faults follow through a J2EE application. Path-based failure detection uses tagging of client requests and statistical analysis to identify anomalous component behavior. Micro-reboots are fast reboots we perform at the sub-application level to recover components from transient failures; by selectively rebooting only those components that are necessary to repair the failure, we reduce recovery time. These techniques are designed to be autonomous and application-generic, making them well-suited to the rapidly changing software of Internet services.},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/jagr-an-autonomous-self-recovering-application-server/},
edition = {The 5th International Workshop on Active Middleware Services},
}