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FERRARI - Framework for Efficient Rewriting and Reification Applyining Runtime Instrumentation

People

 

Binder W.

(Responsible)

Moret P.

(Collaborator)

Abstract

Java and the Java Virtual Machine are a preferred programming language and deployment platform for many application and middleware developers. However, there is a lack of efficient development tools that help analyzing and optimizing the runtime characteristics of complex Java-based systems, and of resource management mechanisms to monitor and control the resource consumption of software components in a dynamically changing environment. In particular, prevailing tools for profiling and monitoring focus exclusively on platform-specific metrics, such as the CPU time consumption on a particular machine. Such metrics are of limited use when software components are deployed dynamically and when resource consumption policies need to be expressed in a platform-independent way. The FERRARI project will fill this gap. It proposes generic techniques for platform-independent, transparent, customizable, dynamic instrumentation in virtual execution environments, which enables new, portable profiling tools, resource management mechanisms, and fine-grained monitoring of Java-based software component in a platform-independent way. The FERRARI project will advance the state-of-the-art in bytecode instrumentation and validate the novel instrumentation techniques in the area of profiling, monitoring, and resource management.

Additional information

Acronym
FERRARI
Start date
01.10.2007
End date
01.10.2010
Duration
36 Months
Funding sources
SNSF
Status
Ended
Category
Swiss National Science Foundation / Project Funding / Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (Division II)