Autonomic computer systems aim to reduce the configuration, operational, and maintenance
costs of distributed applications by enabling them to self-manage, self-heal, self-optimize,
self-configure, and self-protect. This pa-per provides two contributions to the model-driven
development (MDD) of autonomic computing systems using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs).
First, we describe the structure and functionality of an MDD tool that formally captures the
design of EJB applications, their quality of service (QoS) requirements, and the autonomic�…

The goal of autonomic computing is to reduce the configuration, operational, and
maintenance costs of distributed applications by enabling them to self-manage, self-heal,
and self-optimize. This paper provides two contributions to the Model-Driven Engineering
(MDE) of autonomic computing systems using Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs). First, we
describe the structure and functionality of an MDE tool that visually captures the design of
EJB applications, their quality of service (QoS) requirements, and the adaptations applied to�…