OO literature list, for Shosta

Not sure I'll continue it in that way...

Contents

• Implementing Signatures for C++
• Voyager and RMI comparison
• JavaSpace
• C++ Report - Vol 9/No 4 to 8
• C/C++ Users Journal, JOOP, ACM TOPLAS
• ACM SIG Plan Notices - Vol 31, Nr 10; Vol 32, Nr 3 to 6
• Communications of the ACM - Vol 39, Nr 12; Vol 40, Nr 4
• Software Practice and Experience: Vol 27, No 3 to 6

Implementing Signatures for C++

In ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, January p 153
by Gerald Baumgartner & Vincent F. Russo

Very close to CORBA IDL interfaces (or to Java ones), with one interesting addition: retroactive abstraction.

However, based on a deep misunderstanding of the potential of C++. Signature based interfaces do not offer static guarantees concerning any assertions (e.g. that constructors have been called, or other based on access control).

Voyager and RMI comparison

Agent-distributed computing for Java, by ObjectSpace

Unfavourable light onto RMI: complex, restricted, inefficient... Voyager is more like an ORB. Yet dubious fairness. Reusability and interoperability problems.

Some apparent naivety (e.g. concerning mobility)

JavaSpace

Some kind of dynamic context, encapsulating transactions. Some doubts concerning the composability, hence the reusability.