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AIL-a class-oriented RPC stub generator for Amoeba

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AIL — an acronym for Amoeba Interface Language — is a class-oriented RPC stub generator, used with Amoeba's RPC primitives. Together with Amoeba's facilities for manipulating capabilities (bit patterns that are unforgeable references to objects maintained by servers anywhere on a network), AIL provides a completely object-oriented view of a distributed operating system.

Input to AIL consists of class and type definitions and generator directives; output are several files containing function definitions to be compiled and linked with clients and servers. Class definitions consist mainly of function headers (specifying parameter types, etc.). Classes can inherit multiple other classes. AIL can (in principle) generate stubs for different programming languages, so clients and servers need not be written in the same language.

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  1. CWI, Center for Mathematics and Computer Science, P.O. Box 4079, 1009 AB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Guido van Rossum

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van Rossum, G. (1990). AIL-a class-oriented RPC stub generator for Amoeba. In: Schröder-Preikschat, W., Zimmer, W. (eds) Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52609-9_74

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