A remote computation facility for a heterogeneous environment

Author

Bershad, Brian N. ; Levy, Henry M.

Author_Institution

Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

21

Issue

5

fYear

1988

fDate

5/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

60

Abstract

The authors describe THERE (the heterogeneous environment for remote execution), a general-purpose facility designed to simplify the adaptation of nonnetworked, nonheterogeneous applications to a distributed heterogeneous environment. Existing applications made accessible with THERE become heterogeneous network services, and users of those services become heterogeneous network clients. They discuss the problems of remote computation, provide an overview of THERE, and describe the building of THERE applications. They present TPL, THERE programming language, which is tailored toward building execution environments for application programs (on the server sided), defining client interfaces to remote services (on the client side), and providing system-independent communication between client and server interfaces.<>

Keywords

computer networks; network operating systems; programming environments; user interfaces; THERE; THERE programming language; TPL; application programs; client interfaces; heterogeneous environment; network clients; network services; remote computation facility; remote execution; remote services; system-independent communication; Application software; Buildings; Computer languages; Computer networks; Delay; Distributed computing; Hardware; Network servers; Printers; Printing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.58

Filename

58