Scaling Database Languages to Higher-Order Distributed Programming

We describe the Tycoon   approach to scale the successful notion of a uniform, type-safe persistent object store to communication-intensive applications and applications where long-term activities are allowed to span multiple autonomous network sites. Exploiting stream-based data, code and thread exchange primitives we present several distributed programming idioms in Tycoon. These programming patterns range from client-server communication basedon polymorphichigher-orderremote procedure calls to migrating autonomous agentsthat are bounddynamically to network resources present at individual network nodes. Following Tycoon’s add-on approach, these idioms are not cast into built-in syntactic forms, but are expressed by characteristic programming patterns exploiting communication primitives encapsulated by library functions. Moreover, we present a novel form of binding support for ubiquitous resources which drastically reduces communication traffic for modular distributed application...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: DBPL
• Authors: Bernd Mathiske, Florian Matthes, Joachim W. Schmidt
• Keywords: Database, DBPL 1995, Patterns Exploiting Communication, Programming Patterns, Tycoon’s Add-on Approach