Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Computer Engineering
Reifying Communication At The Application Level, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonathan Walpole
Reifying Communication At The Application Level, Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Jonathan Walpole
Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
Middleware, from the earliest RPC systems to recent Object-Oriented Remote Message Sending (RMS) systems such as Java RMI and CORBA, claims transparency as one of its main attributes. Coulouris et al. define transparency as “the concealment from the … application programmer of the separation of components in a distributed system.” They go on to identify eight different kinds of transparency.
We considered titling this paper “Transparency Considered Harmful”, but that title is misleading because it implies that all kinds of transparency are bad. This is not our view. Rather, we believe that the choice of which transparencies should be offered …