Semantic aspects of asynchronous RMI: the RMIX approach

Author

Kurzyniec, Dawid ; Sunderam, Vaidy

Author_Institution

Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

26-30 April 2004

Firstpage

157

Abstract

Summary form only given. Remote method invocation is one of the most popular communication paradigms in distributed computing. However, its synchronous nature may affect application performance. Asynchronous, or nonblocking, RMI addresses the issue by implicitly introducing concurrency into an application and allowing it to interleave computations with communications. We analyze certain semantic issues raised by asynchronous RMI, such as execution order, exception handling, cancellation, data consistency, and more. Solutions are proposed, and a realization of asynchronous RMI within our multiprotocol, extensible communication framework for Java (termed RMIX), is presented.

Keywords

Java; concurrency control; remote procedure calls; Java; asynchronous RMI; communication paradigm; concurrency; data consistency; distributed computing; exception handling; execution order; multiprotocol extensible communication framework; remote method invocation; semantic aspect; Access protocols; Communication industry; Computer industry; Concrete; Concurrent computing; Costs; Delay; Distributed computing; Java; Message passing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2004. Proceedings. 18th International

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2132-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303146

Filename

1303146