Architecture for an Autonomic Web Services Environment

The growing complexity of Web service platforms and their dynamically varying workloads make manually managing their performance a tough and time consuming task. Autonomic computing systems, that is, systems that are self-configuring and self-managing, have emerged as a promising approach to dealing with this increasing complexity. In this paper we propose an architecture of an autonomic Web service environment based on reflective programming techniques, where components at a Web service hosting site tunes themselves and collaborate to provide a self-managed and selfoptimized system.