This paper surveys the risks brought by multitenancy in software platforms, along with the
most prominent solutions proposed to address them. A multitenant platform hosts and …

Cloud computing represents the most recent enterprise trend in information technology and
refers to the virtualization of computing resources that are available on demand. Cloud …

Due to frequently changing requirements, the internal structure of cloud services is highly
dynamic. To ensure flexibility, adaptability, and maintainability for dynamically evolving …

The OSGi specification is becoming widely adopted to build complex applications. This
paper proposes A-OSGi, a framework that leverages on the native features of the OSGi …

Both academic researchers and network vendors have started to promote Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) as a new network paradigm, in which controller systems play a major …

When dealing with dynamic component environments such as the OSGi Service Platform,
where components can come from different sources and may be known only during runtime …

With version 9, Java has been given the new module system Jigsaw. Major goals were to
simplify maintainability of the JDK and improve its security by encapsulating modules' …

The development of a complete Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation is a tedious
process which involves knowledge in different areas: garbage collection, just in time …

Web services have become one of the easiest ways to fulfill a wide range of tasks in multiple
domains of work. Their availability has increased significantly through Service-Oriented …

Cloud environments have become a standard method for enterprises to offer their
applications by means of web services, data management systems, or simply renting out …