Masters Thesis:
Self Healing Systems
using
The Software Matrix

Summary

1. The Software Matrix is a framework that was originally developed to support software salvage. Salvage is a reuse mechanism that focuses on software blocks that are typically significantly bigger that a single class.
2. This work extends the Software Matrix concept and implementation to support Self Healing.
3. By employing message-passing and mediator structures and by supporting the discovery of needed types, we've built a pluggable architecture that can gracefully support the resurrection of failed subsystems.
4. The implementation is quite simple, consisting of only a couple of thousand lines of code. Demonstrating how to achieve self healing with a very simple structure and implementation is one of the important contributions of this work.