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From: chalmers@europarc.xerox.com (Matthew Chalmers)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Re: Distributed/Asynchronous OO Software
Keywords: object-based concurrent programming
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Date: 20 Dec 90 15:27:31 GMT
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In article <12323@hubcap.clemson.edu>, decwrl!apple.com!motcsd!greek!lance@uunet.UU.NET writes:
> The tutorials on OO that I've read generally don't address parallel
> or distributed OO work, except for the SmallTalk doccos which specifically
> say that OO (or at least their OO) doesn't help with concurrent programming.
> 
> Has there been any work in using OO messaging as the basis for distributed
> programming?  How far has this topic progressed?  Are there any designs
> publicly available for research purposes?  For network software?  For
> parallel computing?  Has anyone cooked up an RPC-like system where you
> specify an asychronous (RPC is synchronous) OO messaging protocol and it 
> generates software stubs for you to fill in?  Are there any debuggers available?

Sigplan 24(4) April 89 is an excellent survey of what's going on, and (real
soon now) the proceedings of this year's Object-Based Concurrent
Programming Workshop at OOPSLA will be in a Sigplan special issue.
Some of the best papers were also published in OOPSLA itself.

Also there are a few books from the MIT Press. Look for the names of
editors Yonezewa and/or Tokoro.

Regards,

Matthew Chalmers
Rank Xerox EuroPARC, 61 Regent St., Cambridge, CB2 1AB, U.K.