Linguistic symbiosis between actors and threads

Authors:
Tom Van Cutsem;Stijn Mostinckx;Wolfgang De Meuter
Affiliations:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels -- Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels -- Belgium;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels -- Belgium
Venue:
ICDL '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Dynamic languages: in conjunction with the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2007
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We describe a linguistic symbiosis between AmbientTalk, a flexible, domain-specific language for writing distributed programs and Java, a conventional object-oriented language. This symbiosis allows concerns related to distribution (service discovery, asynchronous communication, failure handling) to be handled in the domain-specific language, while still enabling the reuse of existing software components written in a conventional language. The symbiosis is novel in the sense that a mapping is defined between the concurrency models of both languages. AmbientTalk employs an inherently event-driven model based on actors, while conventional object-oriented languages employ a concurrency model based on threads. The contribution of this paper is a linguistic symbiosis which ensures that the invariants of the event-driven concurrency model are not violated by engaging in symbiosis with multi-threaded programs.