ASX: an object-oriented framework for developing distributed applications
Published 11 April 1994
Douglas C. Schmidt
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The structure and functionality of the ASX framework's object-oriented architecture is described and the results of performance experiments conducted using ASX-based implementations of connection-oriented and connectionless protocols from the TCP/IP protocol family are presented.
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The ADAPTIVE Service eXecutive (ASX) is a highly modular and extensible object-oriented framework that simplifies the development and configuration of distributed applications on shared memory multi-processor platforms. This paper describes the structure and functionality of the ASX framework 's object-oriented architecture. In addition, the paper presents the results of performance experiments conducted using ASX-based implementations of connection-oriented and connectionless protocols from the TCP/IP protocol family. These experiments measure the performance impact of alternative methods for parallelizing communication protocol stacks. Throughout the paper, examples are presented to indicate how the use of object-oriented techniques facilitate application extensibility, component reuse, and performance enhancement. 1 Introduction Distributed computing is a promising technology for improving collaboration through connectivity and interworking; performance through parallel processing;...
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