Tactics for Remote Method Invocation
Fernando Magno Quintão Pereira, Marco Túlio Valente, Mariza A. S. Bigonha, Roberto S. Bigonha, Wagner Salazar Pires · TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology) · 2020
Conventional object oriented middleware platforms rely on the notion of remote interfaces to describe distributed services. This notation is very similar to the one currently used in centralized systems, which increases the productivity of pro- gramming. This paper is founded in the observation that remote interfaces foster a programming model that ignores the differences between local and remote interac- tions. This can result in distributed applications with poor performance, that are not robust to failures, and that can not scale beyond local networks. Therefore, we pro- pose that remote interfaces should be accompanied by the specification of tactics that deal with typical events in distributed computing, such as concurrency, partial failures and high latencies. The paper proposes a tactics definition language and describes the implementation of a middleware system that supports this language.