Abstract
Currently, a number of distributed software systems development tools exist, but typically they are designed either to satisfy industrial standards – industrial perspective – or to experiment new concepts – research perspective. There is a need for software development tools where programmers can both learn about distributed computing – pedagogical perspective – and build quality distributed software systems through prototyping – experimental perspective. This paper introduces the Virtuosi Project, which aims at building a toolkit to assist in developing and executing distributed software systems from both pedagogical and experimental perspectives. It combines virtual machine, object-oriented programming and computational reflection concepts to give those perspectives. The Virtuosi runtime environment can be seen as a reflective middleware, where objects can migrate and remote method invocation is totally transparent by using a mechanism based on handle table.
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Calsavara, A., Noda, A.K., da Costa Cesar Filho, J. (2004). An Overview of the Virtuosi Toolkit. In: Ramos, F.F., Unger, H., Larios, V. (eds) Advanced Distributed Systems. ISSADS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25958-9_4
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