Dependability in software component deployment

International audienceThe deployment of distributed systems is extremely complex. Indeed, software deployment faces significant problems of success and safety. These problems are due to the lack of a unified model, a global architecture for deployment and an explicit dependency representation among the target system and application components. Therefore, we advocate moving from an ad hoc approach to a structured, systematic and safe approach. In this paper, we propose a generic model and an architecture for a dependable deployment