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Distributed systems have become a buzz word, well known but not well used, because of different existing paradigms for programming languages, systems, communication, cooperation, management, and because of integraton problems. From the programmer's point of view, the interesting question is how one can solve a problem specification in a distributed environment. Most of the existing distributed programming environments concentrate on two levels; First, the denotation of an operational solution in a modularized way, and second, description of an initial interconnection of these modules into a distributed application, i.e. configuration or structural programming. Both levels are kept independent as far as possible, using different notations and thus can not benefit from each other because of their separation.
This paper introduces a model which integrates structural and operational programming into a single paradigm. This paradigm is based on object-orientation and reflective programming extended by a category and annotation model realizing structural programming support.
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Zeidler, C., Fank, B. (1994). Integrating structural and operational programming to manage distributed systems. In: Guerraoui, R., Nierstrasz, O., Riveill, M. (eds) Object-Based Distributed Programming. ECOOP 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 791. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017534
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