Design of a distributed object manager for the Smalltalk-80 system

  • Authors:
  • Dominique Decouchant

  • Affiliations:
  • Universite´ de Grenoble

  • Venue:
  • OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

This paper describes the design of a distributed object manager which allows several Smalltalk-80 systems to share objects over a local-area network. This object manager is based on the following principles: location transparency and uniform object naming, unique object representation and use of symbolic links for remote access, possibility of object migration and distributed garbage collection. A version of the object manager has been implemented and is currently being integrated on a two nodes configuration.