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This paper describes a pragmatic framework for modeling, classifying, customizing, and combining various synchronization schemes for object-oriented concurrent programming (OOCP in short). This is achieved by using a general purpose OOCP generic software architecture/platform, named Actalk, The architecture is based on the notions of components, parameterization and inheritance. In this paper we focus on the activity component of an (active) object in order to express control over acceptance and execution of method invocations. Variations on the parameters (namely virtual methods) of the activity component are used to describe and implement various synchronization schemes. At first, our platform helps in classifying and experimenting with various synchronization schemes. Secondly, it helps in reusing them and building-up on previous expertise in order to derivate enhanced or novel schemes. To illustrate this in the paper, we progressively develop various schemes by successive refinements and combinations, starting from two foundational synchronization schemes (namely enabled sets and guards). Before concluding, we briefly discuss some general architectural issues of generic software platforms by comparing the design of the Actalk architecture to some other similar software platforms.
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Briot, JP. (1996). An experiment in classification and specialization of synchronization schemes. In: Futatsugi, K., Matsuoka, S. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1049. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60954-7_53
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