Distributed application framework for large scale distributed systems

Author

Rao, Herman Chung-hwa

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

25-28 May 1993

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

38

Abstract

The author introduces an infrastructure to develop large scale distributed applications, called the distributed application framework (DAF). With DAF, services provided by a distributed system are implemented as individual shared libraries that could be linked and loaded into a running process. A generic server is able to dynamically link these libraries to provide those services to its clients. To manage services in a system, DAF applies the notion of name space used by distributed file systems. That is, each server provides a Unix-filesystem-like name space to name and manage available services. The result is that managing services on a server is similar to handling files on a file system. A prototype of DAF has been implemented on top of Sun OS 4.1 using the Sun remote procedure call (RPC), external data representation (XDR), and dynamic linker

Keywords

Unix; file organisation; network servers; parallel programming; remote procedure calls; DAF; RPC; Sun OS; Sun remote procedure call; Unix-filesystem-like name space; XDR; distributed application framework; distributed file systems; dynamic linker; external data representation; file system; generic server; individual shared libraries; infrastructure; large scale distributed systems; name space; running process; Application software; File servers; File systems; Large-scale systems; Libraries; Network servers; Operating systems; Programming profession; Prototypes; Sun;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings the 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3770-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDCS.1993.287726

Filename

287726