Distrbution and Abstract Types in Emerald
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on distributed systems
An introduction to Trellis/Owl
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Object structure in the Emerald system
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Design of a distributed object manager for the Smalltalk-80 system
OOPLSA '86 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
The Trellis programming environment
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
The design and implementation of distributed Smalltalk
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Transparent forwarding: First steps
OOPSLA '87 Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
Fine-grained mobility in the Emerald system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
The Amber system: parallel programming on a network of multiprocessors
SOSP '89 Proceedings of the twelfth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The DOWL distributed object-oriented language
Communications of the ACM
Locality, causality and continuations
LFP '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on LISP and functional programming
Configuration Classes: An Object-Oriented Paradigm for Distributed Programming
IWOOOS '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems
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DOWL is an extension of the Trellis language supporting distribution. It allows programmers to transparently invoke operations on remote objects and to move objects between the nodes of a distributed system. A few primitives permit the programmer to take full advantage of distribution and to tune performance; most notably by restricting the mobility of objects and specifying which objects should move together. This paper describes the implementation of these extensions: the object format, communication system and the mechanism to invoke operations on remote objects. Performance figures are also presented.