A transactional model for automatic exception handling

Computer Languages, Systems and Structures

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-61

  Cabral, Bruno ^a   Marques, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Exception handling model; Fault tolerance; Object oriented programming languages; Recovery blocks; Software Transactional Memory

Indexed keywords

CRM APPLICATIONS; ERROR HANDLING CODES; ERROR-HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLING MODEL; MESSAGING SYSTEM; OBJECT-ORIENTED CONCEPTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RECOVERY ACTIONS; RECOVERY BLOCKS; RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTS; SOFTWARE TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; FAULT TOLERANCE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RECOVERY; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77957753442     PISSN: 14778424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cl.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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