Title
Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming
Overview
The paper describes the approach to concurrency that is now known as SCOOP for
Simple Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming. It introduces us to the only
notational extensions supporting concurrency. Using the separate declaration
form in Eiffel to show that object may become attached to objects handled
by different processor. The use of separate declarations to cover the fundamental
Boolean property -- is this object here, or is it elsewhere? -- while leaving
room for various physical implementations of concurrency suggests a two-level
architecture, similar to what is available for the graphical mechanisms.
Paper
Bertrand Meyer.
Chapter Concurrency, Distribution, Client - Server and Internet of
Object-Oriented Software Construction.
1997.
Additional reading material
Bertrand Meyer.
Object-Oriented Software Construction.
1997.
Implementation details
Examples comparing regular approaches to concurrency in C++ and Java in
implementation of typical concurrency problems (Dining philosophers,
Barbers shop etc.) and SCOOP approach using separate declarations in Eiffel.