shapiro@corto.inria.fr (08/18/89)
SOS is an experimental distributed object-oriented operating system.
SOS is based on a concept of "distributed object", implemented as a
"group" of elementary objects distributed among different address
spaces; members of a group have mutual communication privileges, which
are denied to non-members. Access to a service may occur only via a
local "proxy", which is a member of the group implementing the
service. Typically, a client gains access to some new service by
importing (migrating) a proxy for that service.
A prototype of SOS has been implemented in C++, on top of Unix. It
supports object migration, persistent object, dynamic linking, and
arbitrarily complex user-defined objects (written in C++). The system
services are accessed via a small set of pre-defined proxies.
Existing system services are: a distributed object manager, a name
service, a storage service, a communication service (allowing groups
to choose from a library of protocol types: datagrams, RPC, multicast,
atomic multicast, etc.). Applications built using SOS include a
multimedia document manager and a UIMS.
SOS is thouroughly documented with a reference manual (similar to Unix
man) and an introductory programmer's manual. Most of the code is in
the public domain, except for a few components derived from ATT code,
for which an ATT licence (Unix and C++) is necessary.
Contact: Marc Shapiro
INRIA, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France. Tel.: +33 (1) 39-63-53-25
e-mail: shapiro@sor.inria.fr (internet)
...!inria!shapiro (uucp)
inria!shapiro@uunet.uu.net (non-standard)
Here is a bibliography of some recent papers:
@InProceedings (ProxyPrinciple,
Author = "Marc Shapiro",
Title = "Structure and Encapsulation in Distributed Systems:
the {P}roxy {P}rinciple",
Booktitle = "Proc.\ 6th Intl.\ Conf.\ on Distributed Computing Systems",
organization = "{IEEE}", pages = "198--204",
Address = "Cambridge, Mass. ({USA})",
Year = 1986, Month = May)
@InProceedings (sos:sigops86,
author = "Shapiro, Marc",
title = "{SOS}: a distributed Object-Oriented Operating System",
booktitle = "2nd {ACM SIGOPS} European Workshop, on ``Making
Distributed Systems Work{''}",
address = "Amsterdam (the Netherlands)",
year = 1986, month = sep,
note = "(Position paper)"
)
@techreport(sos:v1-recueil,
author = "Shapiro, Marc and Abrossimov, Vadim and Gautron, Philippe
and Habert, Sabine and Makpangou, Mesaac Mounchili",
title = "Un recueil de papiers sur le syst\`{e}me d'exploitation
r\'{e}parti \`{a} objets {SOS}",
institution = {Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique},
address = {Rocquencourt (France)},
year = 1987, month = may, number = 84,
type = "Rapport Technique"
)
@InProceedings{loo:C++:286,
author = "Philippe Gautron and Marc Shapiro",
title = "Two extensions to {C++}: A Dynamic Link Editor and
Inner data",
booktitle = "Proceeding and additional papers, {C++} Workshop",
year = 1987,
page = "23--34",
organization = "USENIX",
address = "Berkeley, CA ({USA})",
month = nov
}
@InProceedings{pro:sos:314,
author = "Mesaac Makpangou and Marc Shapiro",
title = "The {SOS} Object-Oriented Communication Service",
booktitle = "Proc.\ 9th Int.\ Conf.\ on Computer Communication",
year = 1988,
address = "Tel Aviv (Israel)",
month = "October--November"
}
@InProceedings{sos:315,
author = "Marc Shapiro",
title = "The Design of a Distributed Object-Oriented Operating
System for Office Applications",
booktitle = "Proc.\ Esprit Technical Week 1988",
year = 1988,
address = "Brussels (Belgium)",
month = nov
}
@InProceedings{pro:sos:321,
author = "Makpangou, Mesaac Mounchili",
title = "Invocations d'objets distants dans {SOS}",
booktitle = "De Nouvelles Architectures pour les Communications",
year = 1988,
editor = "Guy Pujolle",
pages = "195--201",
publisher = "Eyrolles",
address = "Paris (France)",
month = oct
}
@InProceedings{sos:prs:371,
author = "Marc Shapiro and Laurence Mosseri",
title = "A simple object storage system",
booktitle = "Proc.\ Workshop on persistent object systems",
year = 1988,
pages = "320--327",
editor = "J. Rosenberg",
address = "Newcastle NSW (Australia)",
month = jan
}
@TechReport{sos:388,
author = "The {SOR} group",
title = "{SOS} Reference Manual for Prototype {V4}",
institution = {Institut National de la Recherche en Informatique et
Automatique},
year = 1989,
type = "Rapport Technique",
number = 103,
address = {Rocquencourt (France)},
month = feb
}
@PhdThesis{makThesis,
author = "Makpangou, Mesaac Mounchili",
title = "Protocoles de communication et programmation par
objets~: l'exemple de {SOS}",
school = "Universit\'{e} Paris {VI}",
year = 1989,
address = "Paris (France)",
month = feb
}
@InProceedings{nom:sos:391,
author = "J.P. Le Narzul and M. Shapiro",
title = "Un Service de Nommage pour un Syst\`{e}me \`{a}
Objets R\'{e}partis",
booktitle = "Actes Convention Unix 89",
year = 1989,
pages = "73--82",
organization = "{AFUU}",
address = "Paris",
month = mar
}
@InProceedings{sos:prs:c++:397,
author = "Marc Shapiro and Philippe Gautron and Laurence Mosseri",
title = "Persistence and Migration for {C}++ Objects",
booktitle = "ECOOP'89",
year = 1989,
address = "Nottingham ({GB})",
month = jul
}
@TechReport{shapiro:experiences89:sor60,
author = "Marc Shapiro",
title = "{P}rototyping a distributed object-oriented {OS} on {U}nix",
institution = sor,
year = 1989,
type = "Note technique",
number = "SOR--60",
address = rocquencourt,
month = may,
note = "To appear, Workshop on Experiences
with Building Distributed (and Multiprocessor)
Systems, Ft.\ Lauderdale FL (USA), Oct. 1989."
}
@InProceedings{chorus:mv:411,
author = "V. Abrossimov and M. Rozier and M. Shapiro",
title = "Generic Virtual Memory Management for Operating
System Kernels",
booktitle = "Proc.\ 12th ACM Symp.\ on Operating Systems Principles",
year = 1989,
organization = "ACM SIGOPS",
address = "Litchfield Park AZ (USA)",
month = dec
}