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The paper presents a modular design of a distribution middleware that supports the wide variety of entities that exist in high level languages. Such entities are classified into mutables, immutables and transients. The design is factorized in order to allow multiple consistency protocols for the same entity type, and multiple coordination strategies for implementing the protocols that differ in their failure behavior. The design is implemented and evaluated. It shows a very competitive performance.
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Klintskog, E., El Banna, Z., Brand, P., Haridi, S. (2003). The Design and Evaluation of a Middleware Library for Distribution of Language Entities. In: Saraswat, V.A. (eds) Advances in Computing Science – ASIAN 2003. Progamming Languages and Distributed Computation Programming Languages and Distributed Computation. ASIAN 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40965-6_16
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