lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) (12/18/90)
The tutorials on OO that I've read generally don't address parallel or distributed OO work, except for the SmallTalk doccos which specifically say that OO (or at least their OO) doesn't help with concurrent programming. Has there been any work in using OO messaging as the basis for distributed programming? How far has this topic progressed? Are there any designs publicly available for research purposes? For network software? For parallel computing? Has anyone cooked up an RPC-like system where you specify an asychronous (RPC is synchronous) OO messaging protocol and it generates software stubs for you to fill in? Are there any debuggers available?