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Towards Just-in-time Middleware Architectures∗ Charles Zhang, Dapeng Gao and Hans-Arno Jacobsen Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science University of Toronto {czhang,gilbert,jacobsen}@ ABSTRACT representations of remote services for distributed applica- Middleware becomes increasingly important in building dis- tions to avoid dealing with the high degree of heterogeneity tributed applications. Today, conventional middleware sys- in hardware platforms, operating systems, communication tems are designed, implemented, and packaged prior to their protocols, programming languages, application semantics, applications. We argue that with this middleware construc- and many others. Traditional middleware architectures are tion paradigm it is often difficult to meet the challenges often criticized as monolithic or coarse-grained. This high imposed by application specific customization requirements. degree of inflexibility has called for newer paradigms to build We propose to reverse this paradigm by automatically syn- versatile middleware architectures which aptly adapt to ever thesizing middleware structures as the result of reasoning changing external execution environments as well as require- about the distribution needs of the user application of mid- ments of features desired by the user applications of middle- dleware. We term this type of post-postulated middleware ware. Just-in-time middleware (JiM). In this paper, we present our