Treffer: Asynchronous Event Handling in Distributed Object-Based Systems

This paper discusses the design and the operating system support necessary for providing asynchronous event handling in distributed, passive object-based programming environments, where objects are potentially shared by disparate applications. We discuss the necessity of thread-based as well as object-based event notification and how a variety of hard to solve distributed programming issues can be tackled by using the approach outlined in the design. Keywords: [Distributed Programming Environments, Passive Objects, Threads, Concurrency, Events] 1. Introduction Distributed programming has always been recognized as an order of magnitude more complex than centralized programming, and novel system structuring paradigms hold significant promise in making this problem tractable. Much of the current research on distributed operating systems and the associated programming environments are concerned with simplifying the task of distributed programming by providing constructs that make these .