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The Evolution of the Arjuna Transaction Processing System

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Dependable and Historic Computing

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The Arjuna transaction system began life in the mid 1980s as an academic project to examine the use of object-oriented techniques in the development of fault-tolerant distributed systems. Twenty five years later, it is an integral part of the JBoss application sever middleware from Red Hat. This journey from an academic to a commercial environment has been neither easy nor smooth but it has been interesting from many different perspectives. This paper gives an overview of this journey and discusses key lessons learned.

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Little, M.C., Shrivastava, S.K. (2011). The Evolution of the Arjuna Transaction Processing System. In: Jones, C.B., Lloyd, J.L. (eds) Dependable and Historic Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1_25

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