A Step Toward Automatic Distribution of Java Programs

Attali, Isabelle; Caromel, Denis; Guider, Romain

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-35520-7_7

Cited by 11 publications

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“…ProActive [1,10] provides similar services to Babylon v2.0, using similar techniques that do not require JVM changes or external tools. As well, it provides a group communication abstraction.…”

Section: Related Research Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting dynamic proxies in middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Heiningen

Brecht

MacDonald

2006

Proceedings 20th IEEE International Parallel &Amp; Distributed Processing Symposium

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Babylon v2.0 is a collection of tools and services that provide a 100% Java compatible environment for developing, running and managing parallel, distributed and mobile Java applications. It incorporates features like object migration, asynchronous method invocation and remote class loading while providing an easy-to-use interface. The implementation of Babylon v2.0 exploits dynamic proxies, a feature added to Java 1.3 that allows runtime creation of proxy objects. This paper shows how Babylon v2.0 exploits dynamic proxies to implement several key features without the need for special language or virtual machine extensions, preprocessors, or compilers. The resulting Babylon programs are portable across all Java virtual machines, and the development process is simplified by removing the extra steps needed to invoke external stub compilers and incorporate the generated code into an application. This simplification also allows remote objects to be created for any class that supports an interface to its methods, even if source code is not available.

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Section: Related Research Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting dynamic proxies in middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Heiningen

Brecht

MacDonald

2006

Proceedings 20th IEEE International Parallel &Amp; Distributed Processing Symposium

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“…These proxies were used in the implementation of Babylon, RMIX 14, and Java ARMI 15. Before the advent of dynamic proxies, systems such as ProActive 16, 17 implemented their own equivalent facility. Dynamic proxies are attractive because they can reduce the requirements for creating classes that produce remote objects compared with normal Java RMI 4.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other systems use extra keywords or language constructs 15, 19–22, which require an extra preprocessor or a new compiler. Yet others use implicit rules, based on the method return type and the presence of checked exceptions, to decide on the semantics to use for a method call 16. Implicit rules add an extra cognitive burden to the developer, who must now be aware of how these rules will affect the execution of their application code.…”

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confidence: 99%

Babylon: middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Heiningen

MacDonald

Brecht

2008

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARYBabylon is a collection of tools and services that provide a 100% Java-compatible environment for developing, running and managing parallel, distributed and mobile Java applications. It incorporates features such as object migration, asynchronous method invocation, and remote class loading, while providing an easy-to-use interface. Additionally, Babylon enables Java applications to seamlessly create and interact with remote objects, while protecting those objects from other applications by implementing access restrictions and separate namespaces. The implementation of Babylon centers around dynamic proxies, a feature first available in Java 1.3, that allow proxy objects to be created at runtime. Dynamic proxies play a key role in achieving the goals of Babylon. The potential cluster computing benefits of the system are demonstrated with experimental results, which show that sequential Java applications can achieve significant performance benefits from using Babylon to parallelize their work across a cluster of workstations.

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“…The model of distribution and activity of ProActive is part of a larger effort to improve simplicity and reuse in the programming of distributed and concurrent object systems [3,4], including a precise semantics [1].…”

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Efficient, flexible, and typed group communications in Java

Baduel

Baude

Caromel

2002

Proceedings of the 2002 Joint ACM-ISCOPE Conference on Java Grande

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Group communication is a crucial feature for high-performance and Grid computing. While previous works and libraries proposed such a characteristic (e.g. MPI, or object-oriented frameworks), the use of groups imposed specific constraints on programmers -for instance the use of dedicated interfaces to trigger group communications.We aim at a more flexible mechanism. More specifically, this paper proposes a scheme where, given a Java class, one can initiate group communications using the standard public methods of the class together with the classical dot notation; in that way, group communications remains typed. Furthermore, groups are automatically constructed to handle the result of collective operations, providing an elegant and effective way to program gather operations. This flexibility also allows to handle results that are groups of remotely accessible objects, and to use a group as a means to dispatch different parameters to different group members (for instance in a cyclic manner). Furthemore, hierarchical groups can be easily and dynamically constructed; an important feature to achieve the use of several clusters in Grid computing.Performance measures demonstrate the viability of the approach. The challenge is to provide easy to use, efficient, and dynamic group management for objects dynamically distributed on the Grid.

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A Step Toward Automatic Distribution of Java Programs

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Exploiting dynamic proxies in middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Exploiting dynamic proxies in middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Babylon: middleware for distributed, parallel, and mobile Java applications

Efficient, flexible, and typed group communications in Java

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