Reliable Distributed Programming in C++: The Arjuna Approach

Programming in a distributed system is fraught with potential difficulties caused, in part, by the physical distribution of the system itself. By making the distribution of the system transparent it is hoped that the task becomes comparable with that of programming a more traditional centralised system. Objectoriented programming systems are natural starting points for such an attempt due to the inherent modularisation and encapsulation properties they possess. Arjuna is one such system, programmed in C++, which permits the construction of reliable distributed applications in a relatively transparent manner.