Adding autonomic functionality to object-oriented applications

Integrating applications with autonomic functions such as checkpointing/restart, self-healing, or self-updating is difficult and time consuming. We demonstrate that autonomic functionality can be separated from applications and supplied by default implementations, thereby dramatically reducing the cost of supplying autonomy. This article proposes a proxy/wrapper technique with an additional code hook-up infrastructure to provide application adaptation with self-updating, self-configuration and self-optimization functionalities.