DOCASE: a methodic approach to distributed programming

There is much more to distributed object-oriented software development than the provision of distribution-transparent method invocation and object migration support. A project called DOCASE (Distibution and Objects in CASE) tried to develop and support a holistic view of such a software development....

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Published in:Communications of the ACM 1993-09, Vol.36 (9), p.127-138
Main Authors: Muhlhauser, Max, Gerteis, Wolfgang, Heuser, Lutz
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Applications
Computer-aided software engineering
Design
Distributed processing
Employees
Engineers
Innovations
Methods
New products
Object oriented programming
Operating systems
Programming languages
Servers
Software
Software development
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Summary:There is much more to distributed object-oriented software development than the provision of distribution-transparent method invocation and object migration support. A project called DOCASE (Distibution and Objects in CASE) tried to develop and support a holistic view of such a software development. DOCASE attempts to enhance the distributed object-oriented approach with better support for design and structured programming. In particular, the decision was made to integrate design and implementation into a seamless phase, supported by a single hybrid language called DODL (DOCASE design language). DOCASE supports a thread-based concurrency model that is divided into 3 levels, each of which can be developed independently. Threads are treated as components of logical nodes, active types, and cooperations. The methodic approach of DOCASE can only represent one small step toward a more adequate software technology for distributed applications.
ISSN:0001-0782
1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/162685.162721