The Arctic Beans research project is about software components and their supporting environment. The environment of software components consists of a set of capsules (containers). A software component executes within (and is supported by) a capsule. The capsule can provide support for a number of implicit services, including life-cycle and state management, security, transactions, and persistence.

The Arctic Beans project opens up the implementation of a software component (enterprise bean) and its capsule with the use of the concept of reflection. The project focuses on the security and transaction services and how to adapt these services according to the application needs and its environment (capsule).

A short project description is available in the about section. A publication at IEEE DS Online also presents some of the early ideas. In the complete list of publications you will find papers with more detailed information about the different topics covered by the Arctic Bean project.

The blog is the place to add comments and info. Here you can find and add information about software, publications, related projects and so on. Updated frequently.

Arctic Beans project members are encouraged to participate in developing and maintaining this site. Please get an account (you have to correct the provided email address in the obvious way) on www.abean.cs.uit.no and read the following introduction:

How to add contents to the Arctic Beans site

The project has a weekly meeting (almost) every Friday at 2pm. The meeting is at the department meeting room (A130). The topic for the meetings are usually announced on the mailing lists (see below) and as an event on this home page (see calendar and events in the right column).

The project has several mailing lists: abean (archive) for the project members, abean-partners (archive) for the industrial partners, and abean-staff (archive) for the project managers. The archives of the member and staff lists are not public available.