A resource management framework for adaptive middleware

The authors introduce a reflective resource management framework that offers facilities for resource awareness and dynamic reallocation of resources for an adaptive middleware architecture. The main emphasis of the paper is the design and implementation of a resource management framework for such an architecture. We are not carrying out research in specific resource management algorithms; rather, we focus on providing a general framework which can accommodate best practice in the area. Such facilities ease the management of resources by providing a complete and consistent model of resources in the system at varying levels of abstractions. In addition, activities in the system are represented in a task model which provides a higher level of resource management.