Some design issues of a distributed object-oriented system

Author

Huang, Jong-Hsi ; Wang, Feng-Jian

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., HsinChu, Taiwan

fYear

1990

fDate

30 Sep-2 Oct 1990

Firstpage

353

Lastpage

360

Abstract

The authors discuss the techniques of designing a distributed object-oriented system based on considerations of concurrency, communication, inheritance, garbage collection, protection, debugging, and fault tolerance. Object-oriented programming enhances software reuse. Objects are inherently distributed, whereas many object-oriented languages (OOLs), such as Smalltalk and C++, are based on a virtual machine. These most popular OOLs use class and inheritance. This paper is based on the extension of these languages for distributed systems. The paper covers the possible problems and design alternatives, and surveys current research, where it exists, for each issue

Keywords

distributed databases; object-oriented programming; software reusability; C++; Smalltalk; class; communication; concurrency; debugging; design issues; distributed object-oriented system; distributed systems; fault tolerance; garbage collection; inheritance; object-oriented languages; object-oriented programming; protection; software reuse; virtual machine; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Debugging; Design methodology; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Protection; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1990. Proceedings., Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2088-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1990.138345

Filename

138345