MDE-based Design and Implementation of Autonomic Software Components

In this paper, we illustrate autonomic computing by discussing the design and implementation of self-configuring and self-healing software components. To that end, we describe PauWare, a Java programming environment (a library of predefined classes plus two closely related tools) which is a support for the remote and real-time management of software components. This approach is inspired by model-driven-engineering (MDE) and more precisely by model executability through the monitoring/control of UML 2 state machine diagrams at runtime. The paper shows why and how such state machines may play the role of autonomic supports. The paper also tackles the problem of design and implementation and more specifically, how and when self-configuring and self-healing activities may occur