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Jeeg: temporal constraints for the synchronization of concurrent objects
Author(s) -
Milicia Giuseppe,
Sassone Vladimiro
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.849
Subject(s) - computer science , programming language , java , synchronization (alternating current) , programmer , compiler , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , theoretical computer science , parallel computing , computer network , channel (broadcasting) , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
We introduce Jeeg, a dialect of Java based on a declarative replacement of the synchronization mechanisms of Java that results in a complete decoupling of the ‘business’ and the ‘synchronization’ code of classes. Synchronization constraints in Jeeg are expressed in a linear temporal logic, which allows one to effectively limit the occurrence of the inheritance anomaly that commonly affects concurrent object‐oriented languages. Jeeg is inspired by the current trend in aspect‐oriented languages. In a Jeeg program the sequential and concurrent aspects of object behaviors are decoupled: specified separately by the programmer, these are then weaved together by the Jeeg compiler. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.