Extending Linda to Simplify Application Development
George Wells, Peter Clayton, Alan G. Chalmers · 2001
Abstract This paper describes a new imple-mentation of Linda in Java, called eLinda. This system includes extensions designed to simplify the development of distributed applications, and to enhance the efficiency of communication in a distributed mem-ory environment. These features are de-scribed, and compared with the extended fea-tures found in other Java implementations of Linda (i.e. JavaSpaces and TSpaces), highlighting the power and simplicity of the extensions in eLinda. The application of eLinda to various practical problems is also discussed, and, in particular, the paper fo-cusses on the use of eLinda for parsing vi-sual languages as a specific case study.