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Under many circumstances, the development of distributed applications greatly benefits from mechanisms like process groups, reliable ordered multicast, and message passing. However, toolkits offering these capabilities are often low-level and therefore difficult to program. To ease the development of distributed applications, in this paper we propose to hide these low-level functions behind object-oriented abstractions such as object-groups, Remote Method Calling, and Smart Proxies. Furthermore, we describe how the Electra toolkit provides such object-oriented abstractions in a portable and highly machine-independent way.
This work is supported by Siemens AG ZFE, Germany, and by the Eidgenössisches Volkswirtschaftsdepartement, Kommission zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (KWF), Switzerland, Grants No. 2255.1 and 2554.1
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Maffeis, S. (1994). A flexible system design to support object-groups and object-oriented distributed programming. 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/BFb0017542
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