Abstracting Interactions Based on Message Sets

ing Interactions Based on Message Sets Svend Frr 1 and Gul Agha2. 1 Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 2 University of Illinois, 1304 W. Springfield Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 Abstract. An important requirement of programming languages for dissystems is to provide abstractions for coordination. A common type of coordination requires reactivity in response to arbitrary communication patterns. We have developed a communication model in which concurrent objects can be activated by sets of messages. Specifically, our model allows direct and abstract expression of common interaction patterns found in concurrent systems. For example, the model captures multiple clients that collectively invoke shared servers as a single activation. Furthermore, it supports definition of individual clients that concurrently invoke multiple servers and wait for subsets of the returned reply messages. Message sets are dynamically defined using conjunctive and disjunctive combin...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: ECOOPW
• Authors: Svend Frølund, Gul Agha
• Keywords: Arbitrary Communication Patterns, Distributed And Parallel Computing, ECOOPW 1994, Message Sets, Sets Svend Frr