Preparing Mozart 1.4.0

[Peter Van Roy]

Raphael Collet wrote:
> Dear Bob,
>
> In short, the major change is the distribution layer.  It has been 
> reimplemented completely on top of the DSS (Distribution SubSystem) 
> library.  The DSS abstracts and generalizes the former distribution 
> layer, and is no longer Mozart-specific.  It is mainly the work of 
> Erik Klintskog (SICS, Sweden).
Raphael is being too modest here.  His contributions are at least as 
important as Erik's.

Erik Klintskog's Ph.D. dissertation: "Generic Distribution Support for 
Programming Systems", KTH, June 2005, 
http://www.sics.se/~erik/PAPERS/phd_final.pdf

Raphael Collet's Ph.D. dissertation: "The Limits of Network Transparency 
in a Distributed Programming Language", UCL, Dec. 2007, 
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/raphthesis.pdf

I want to emphasize that the DSS can be used independently of Mozart: 
it's a C++ library that is called by the Mozart emulator, but it can 
also be used in any C++ program to provide similar distribution abilities.

Peter