Many exceptional situations arise during the execution of an application. When developing dependable software, the first step is to foresee these exceptional situations and docume...
File I/O data is interpreted by high performance parallel/distributed applications mostly as a sequence of arbitrary bits. This leads to the situation where data is ’volatile’...
Because multicore CPUs have become the standard with all major hardware manufacturers, it becomes increasingly important for ing languages to provide programming abstractions that ...
Persistent programming systems are generally supported by an object store, a conceptually infinite object repository. Objects in such a repository cannot be directly accessed by u...
To date, systems offering multitasking for the JavaTM programming language either use one process or one class loader for each application. Both approaches are unsatisfactory. Usi...