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SHADOWS - A Flexible Support System for Objects in Distributed Systems

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Steve Caughey, Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava

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Abstract

Shadows is a simple, but flexible, architecture based upon only three key facilities: object servers, object migration and location-transparent operation invocation. We show how several powerful object properties such as object caching, object shareability, and persistence can easily be created by exploiting only these three concepts. The Shadows architecture requires only capabilities found in common object-oriented languages and modern operating systems. An instance of the Shadows architecture has been implemented in C++ on a distributed memory multiprocessor system.

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Author(s): Caughey SJ, Parrington GD, Shrivastava SK

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 1993

Pages: 9

Print publication date: 01/10/1993

Source Publication Date: October 1993

Report Number: 453

Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/453.pdf

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