Communication in GLOBE: an object-based worldwide operating system

  • Authors:
  • P. Homburg;M. van Steen;A. S. Tanenbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IWOOOS '96 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating Systems (IWOOOS '96)
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Current paradigms for interprocess communication are not sufficient to describe the exchange of information at an adequate level of abstraction. They are either too low-level, or their implementations cannot meet performance requirements. As an alternative, we propose distributed shared objects as a unifying concept. These objects offer user-defined operations on shared state, but allow for efficient implementations through replication and distribution of state. In contrast to other object-based models, these implementation aspects are completely hidden from applications.