Code management automation for Erlang remote actors

  • Authors:
  • Adrian Francalanza;Tyron Zerafa

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Malta, Msida, Malta;University of Malta, Msida, Malta

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Programming based on actors, agents, and decentralized control
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Distributed Erlang provides mechanisms for spawning actors remotely through its remote spawn BIF. For remote spawn to function properly, the node hosting the spawned actor must share the same codebase as that of the node launching the actor. This assumption turns out to be too strong for various distributed settings. We propose a higher-level framework for the remote spawn of side-effect free actors, abstracting from codebase migration and management.