Building configurable distributed systems using the Kitara object-oriented language

The features of object-oriented computing are highly appropriate for developing complex distributed applications. Distribution introduces a number of additional requirements for object-oriented languages; two of the most important requirements are: the ability to configure objects to make optimum use of the underlying distributed architecture, and the ability to re-configure objects to improve performance, to recover from failure or to initiate new versions of objects. The authors discuss the design of a distributed object-oriented language called Kitara. In particular, they focus on the approach to inter-object communication in Kitara and discuss the properties of this approach in supporting configurable and reconfigurable distributed applications