Middleware 2003

ion of Transaction Demarcation in Component-Oriented Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Romain Rouvoy and Philippe Merle Optimising Java RMI Programs by Communication Restructuring . . . . . . . 324 Kwok Cheung Yeung and Paul H. J. Kelly The JBoss Extensible Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344 Marc Fleury and Francisco Reverbel Next Generation Middleware Flexible and Adaptive QoS Control for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Middleware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Richard E. Schantz, Joseph P. Loyall, Craig Rodrigues, Douglas C. Schmidt, Yamuna Krishnamurthy, and Irfan Pyarali Large-Scale Service Overlay Networking with Distance-Based Clustering . . 394 Jingwen Jin and Klara Nahrstedt A Step Towards a New Generation of Group Communication Systems . . . . 414 Sergio Mena, André Schiper, and Pawe l Wojciechowski Table of