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

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1195-1224

  Van Heiningen, Willem ^a   MacDonald, Steve ^b   Brecht, Tim ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed middleware; Dynamic proxies; Object migration; Remote class loading; Synchronous and asynchronous remote method invocation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; MIDDLEWARE;

CLASS LOADING; DISTRIBUTED MIDDLEWARE; DYNAMIC PROXY; OBJECT MIGRATION; REMOTE METHOD INVOCATIONS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 47049096789     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1264     Document Type: Article

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