ASX: an object-oriented framework for developing distributed applications

  • Authors:
  • Douglas C. Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA

  • Venue:
  • CTEC'94 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Sixth C++ Technical Conference - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The ADAPTIVE Service eXecutive (ASX) is a highly modular and extensible object-oriented framework that simplifies the development and configuration of distributed applications on shared memory multi-processor platforms. This paper describes the structure and functionality of the ASX framework's object-oriented architecture. In addition, the paper presents the results of performance experiments conducted using ASX-based implementations of connection-oriented and connectionless protocols from the TCP/IP protocol family. These experiments measure the performance impact of alternative methods for parallelizing communication protocol stacks. Throughout the paper, examples are presented to indicate how the use of object-oriented techniques facilitate application extensibility, component reuse, and performance enhancement.