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Computing Grids and Peer-to-Peer networks are inherently heterogeneous and distributed, and for this reason they drive new technological challenges : complexity in the design of applications, complexity of deployment, reusability and performance issues. The objective of our work is to provide an answer to these problems through the implementation for ProActive of an extensible, dynamical and hierarchical component model, Fractal. This document is an overview of the implementation of Fractal with ProActive. First, it explains the goals and the reasons for a new implementation of the Fractal model. Second, it shows the extensions to the model and the conformance to the Fractal specification. The third section is a word on the current Architecture Description Language. The fourth section goes through some examples to illustrate the use of the API and the distribution of components. The final section is about our forthcoming research work. You can also get an overview of the architecture of this implementation here.
For a general overview of our work , you can also refer to a paper presented at the International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA), in November 2003. (.pdf)