Title :
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
fDate :
4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
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;
