Joust: a platform for liquid software

Author

Hartman, John J. ; Bigot, Peter A. ; Bridges, Patrick ; Montz, Brady ; Piltz, Rob ; Spatscheck, Oliver ; Proebsting, Todd A. ; Peterson, Larry L. ; Bavier, Andy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

32

Issue

4

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

56

Abstract

The authors describe a Java-based platform for liquid software, called Joust, that is specifically designed to support low-level, communication-oriented systems and to avoid the limitations of general-purpose OSs. The authors contrast the platform requirements for communication-oriented liquid software with those of computation-oriented software, identify the limitations of current platforms, and outline the benefits of Joust. They also offer an overview of Scout (the underlying OS upon which Joust is built), its runtime system, and its just-in-time (JIT) compiler

Keywords

Java; distributed programming; network operating systems; program compilers; Java; Joust; Scout; active networks; communication-oriented systems; computation-oriented software; just-in-time compiler; liquid software; mobile code; operating system; run-time system; Application software; Communication system control; Communication system software; Computer networks; Java; Mobile communication; Resource management; Software prototyping; Software quality; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.755005

Filename

755005