Group communication in an object-based environment

Author

Pardyak, Przemyslaw

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Copenhagen Univ., Denmark

fYear

1992

fDate

24-25 Sep 1992

Firstpage

106

Lastpage

116

Abstract

The paper presents a proposal for incorporating a group communication paradigm into an object-based environment. Group communication is an interaction involving an arbitrary number of participants. Its application simplifies specification and implementation of complex systems. Object-oriented programming can significantly profit from the addition of a group mechanisms. The proposed mechanism, Multiple Object Invocation, provides group communication among objects. The paper first presents a model of general structure of group services and the use of group communication in this model. Multiple Object Invocation is presented and its characteristics and application in the general model is discussed. Implementation of Multiple Object Invocation in the Emerald object-oriented language and distributed operating system is presented

Keywords

groupware; network operating systems; object-oriented programming; Emerald object-oriented language; Multiple Object Invocation; distributed operating system; group communication; group communication paradigm; group mechanisms; object-based environment; object-oriented programming; Broadcasting; Computer interfaces; Computer science; Load management; Message passing; Multicast protocols; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Operating systems; Proposals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Object Orientation in Operating Systems, 1992., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Dourdan

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3015-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWOOOS.1992.252991

Filename

252991