A seamless services migration framework with JVM Tool Interface

Services migration is becoming more and more important due to the flexibility of the complex distributed systems. In the Java environment, the problem may not be solved without modification on JVM or bytecode in existing solutions. This paper presents a migration framework extended by IBM Service Management Framework; then it provides an experiment analysis and evaluation on a typical use case. Moreover, it shows a new approach for Java thread migration by using JVM Tool Interface in order to realize a transparent migration at a combination of application and thread level for enhancing capability of the framework. Our solution is implemented and evaluated to show the functionality of the prototype.