Methodology for Java distributed and parallel programming using distributed collections
Violeta Felea, Bernard Toursel · 2002
Designing distributed and parallel applications is an im-portant issue in the context of programming and execution environments. Designing applications as independently and as transparently as possible of the distributed system is not an easy issue. At the same time, improving efficiency of ex-ecution is considered to be difficult especially for irregular applications executing on a heterogeneous environment. In ADAJ (Adaptive Distributed Applications in Java), the concept of distributed collections is used as a guide for the methodology of programming Java distributed and parallel applications. Distributed collections encapsulate data par-allelism and make use of threads transparent for the user. Asynchronous calls are also proposed in order to achieve task parallelism. The article shows the interest of using distributing collections and asynchronous calls, evaluating both conception and execution of ADAJ applications. 1.