Part III. Programming With Active Objects

Table of Contents

Chapter 8. Active Object Definition

8.1. Overview

8.2. Active Object Structure

Chapter 9. Active Objects: Creation And Advanced Concepts

9.1. Overview

9.2. Restrictions on creating active objects

9.3. Instantiation Based Creation

9.3.1. Using PAActiveObject.newActive(...)

9.3.2. Using PAActiveObject.newActiveInParallel(...)

9.4. Object Based Creation using PAActiveObject.turnActive(...)

9.5. Active Object Creation Arguments

9.5.1. Using classname and target

9.5.2. Using Constructor Arguments

9.5.3. Using A Node

9.5.4. Using A Custom Activity

9.5.5. Using the factory pattern with Active Objects

9.5.6. Using MetaObjectFactory to customize the meta objects

9.6. Elements of an active object and futures

9.6.1. Role of the stub

9.6.2. Role of the proxy

9.6.3. Role of the body

9.6.4. Role of the instance of class Worker

9.7. Asynchronous calls and futures

9.7.1. Creation of a Future Object

9.7.2. Methods affected by futures

9.7.3. Asynchronous calls in details

9.7.4. Good ProActive programming practices

9.7.5. Lightweight failure detection

9.8. Automatic Continuation in ProActive

9.8.1. Sending Futures

9.8.2. Receiving Futures

9.8.3. Illustration of an Automatic Continuation

9.9. Data Exchange between Active Objects

Chapter 10. Typed Group Communication

10.1. Overview

10.2. Instantiation Typed Group Creation

10.3. Group representation and manipulation

10.4. Group as result of group communications

10.5. Broadcast vs Dispatching

10.6. Access By Name

10.7. Unique serialization

Chapter 11. Mobile Agents And Migration

11.1. Migration Overview

11.2. Using Migration

11.3. Complete example

11.4. Dealing with non-serializable attributes

11.4.1. Using The MigrationStrategyManager Interface

11.4.2. Using readObject(...) and writeObject(...)

11.5. Mixed Location Migration

11.5.1. Forwarders And Agents

11.5.2. Forwarder And Agent Parameters

11.5.3. Configuration File

11.5.4. Location Server

Chapter 12. Exception Handling

12.1. Exceptions and Asynchrony

12.1.1. Barriers around try blocks

12.1.2. TryWithCatch Annotator

12.1.3. throwArrivedException() and waitForPotentialException()