Communications of the ACM
Design of the Munin distributed shared memory system
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on distributed shared memory systems
The Java Language Specification
The Java Language Specification
An Internet Collaborative Environment for Sharing Java Applications
FTDCS '97 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems
Distributed shared memory: where we are and where we should be headed
HOTOS '95 Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-V)
Service combinators for web computing
DSL'97 Proceedings of the Conference on Domain-Specific Languages on Conference on Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), 1997
Run-time support for distributed sharing in safe languages
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
InterWeave: A Middleware System for Distributed Shared State
LCR '00 Selected Papers from the 5th International Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers
Self-Adaptive Leasing for Jini
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
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This paper describes a lightweight yet powerful approach for writing distributed applications using shared variables. Our approach, called SHAREHOLDER, is inspired by the flexible and intuitive model of information access common to the World Wide Web. The distributed applications targeted by our approach all share a weak consistency model and loose transaction semantics, similar to a user's model of accessing email, bulletin boards, chat rooms, etc. on the Internet. The SHAREHOLDER infrastructure has several advantages. Its highly object-oriented view of shared variables simplifies their initialization and configuration. A shared variable's distribution mechanism is specified through an associated configuration object, and the programmer does not need to write any extra code to implement the sharing mechanism. These configuration objects can be initialized at run-time, allowing tremendous flexibility in dynamic control of distribution of shared variables. Finally, the programmer can treat shared variables and local variables interchangeably, thus simplifying conversion of a serial application into a distributed application.