ELECTRA: making distributed programs object-oriented

Authors:
Silvano Maffeis
Affiliations:
University of Zurich, Dept. of Computer Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Sedms'93 USENIX Systems on USENIX Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems - Volume 4
Year:
1993

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Abstract

Building failure-resilient, distributed software is difficult. In this paper we describe abstractions which help the programmer in developing such software systems by means of object-oriented programming. An object-oriented toolkit called Electra is presented, which provides abstractions for Remote Method Calling (RMC), object-groups, object-group communication with type checking, object-location trading and so forth. Electra allows the building of failure-resilient, directly distributed systems by reusing software components. With a simple example we demonstrate how a distributed, faulttolerant client-server application can be realized in Electra.