Preparing Mozart 1.4.0

[Bob Calco]

Peter:

Thanks for the references below! And hello again. :)

- Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Van Roy [mailto:peter.vanroy at uclouvain.be]
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: Mozart hackers; bobcalco at tampabay.rr.com
> Subject: Re: Preparing Mozart 1.4.0
> 
> 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