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Although coordination of concurrent objects is a fundamental aspect of object-oriented concurrent programming, there is only little support for its specification and abstraction at the language level. This is a problem because coordination is often buried in the code of the coordinated objects, leading to a lack of abstraction and reuse. Here we present CoLaS, a coordination model and its implementation based on the notion of Coordination Groups. By clearly identifying and separating the coordination from the coordinated objects CoLaS provides a better abstraction and reuse of the coordination and the coordinated objects. Moreover CoLaS’s high dynamicity provides better support for coordination of active objects.
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Cruz, J.C., Ducasse, S. (1999). A Group Based Approach for Coordinating Active Objects. In: Ciancarini, P., Wolf, A.L. (eds) Coordinatio Languages and Models. COORDINATION 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48919-3_25
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