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Transparency and Asynchronous Method Invocation

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2005)

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This article focuses on transparency in the context of asynchronous method invocation. It describes two solutions available to provide full-transparency: where asynchronism is entirely masked to the developer. The main contribution of this paper is to clearly present the drawbacks of this approach: exception handling and developer consciousness are two problems inherent to full-transparency that makes it at least, hard to use, at worst, useless. This paper defends explicit asynchronous method invocation and proposes semi-transparency: almost all the complexity of asynchronism is masked to the developer but the asynchronism itself.

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  1. GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi, N.W.F.P, 23460, Pakistan

    Pierre Vignéras

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    Robert Meersman

  2. School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University, Bld 10.10, 376-392 Swanston Street, 3001, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Zahir Tari

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Vignéras, P. (2005). Transparency and Asynchronous Method Invocation. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3760. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575771_47

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