JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 10(7): 824-842, doi: 10.3217/jucs-010-07-0824
Tactics for Remote Method Invocation
Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira‡, Marco Tulio Valente§, Wagner Salazar Pires‡, Roberto S. Bigonha|, Mariza Andrade Silva Bigonha¶‡ Computer Science Department, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil§ PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil| Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil¶ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Corresponding author: Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira ( fernandm@dcc.ufmg.br ) © Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira, Marco Valente, Wagner Pires, Roberto Bigonha, Mariza Andrade Silva Bigonha. This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License. Citation:
Pereira FMQ, Valente MT, Pires WS, Bigonha RS, Bigonha MAS (2004) Tactics for Remote Method Invocation. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 10(7): 824-842. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-010-07-0824 |  |
Abstract
Conventional object oriented middleware platforms rely on the notion of remote interfaces to describe distributed services. This notation is very similar to the one currently used in centralized systems, which increases the productivity of programming. This paper is founded in the observation that remote interfaces foster a programming model that ignores the differences between local and remote interactions. This can result in distributed applications with poor performance, that are not robust to failures, and that can not scale beyond local networks. Therefore, we propose that remote interfaces should be accompanied by the specification of tactics that deal with typical events in distributed computing, such as concurrency, partial failures and high latencies. The paper proposes a tactics definition language and describes the implementation of a middleware system that supports this language.
Keywords
middleware, tactics definition language, distributed programming