Rubah - Dynamic Software Updating for Java

Rubah is the first Dynamic Software Update system for Java that is:

• Portable, implemented via libraries and bytecode rewriting on top of a standard JVM
• Efficient, imposing negligible overhead on normal, steady-state execution;
• Flexible, allowing nearly arbitrary changes to classes between updates;
• Non-disruptive, employing either a novel eager algorithm that transforms the program state with multiple threads or a novel lazy algorithm that transforms objects as they are demanded, after the update.

Links

• Rubah @ github
• Rubah talk (OOPSLA 2014)

Papers

[ICST_16] Tedsuto: A General Framework for Testing Dynamic Software Updates. Luís Pina and Michael Hicks. In Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), April, 2016.

[_16] Practical Dynamic Software Updating. Luís Pina. PhD dissertation, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, February, 2016.

[OOPSLA_14] Rubah: DSU for Java on a Stock JVM. Luís Pina and Luís Veiga and Michael Hicks. In Proceedings of the ACM 2014 International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Languages, Systems, and Applications (OOPSLA), October, 2014.

[HotSWUp_13] Rubah: Efficient, General-purpose Dynamic Software Updating for Java. Luís Pina and Michael Hicks. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Upgrades (HotSWUp), June, 2013.

Authors

Luís Veiga
Luís Pina
Michael Hicks