Treffer: Design and Implementation of Parallel Java with Global Object Space

Java 1 has emerged as a dominant language that could eventually replace C++. It is believed that using Java would boost programmer productivity because of its well-thought design, independence from backward-compatibility with C, absence of arbitrary pointers, etc. We present the design and implementation of a parallel extension to Java. The parallel extension provides dynamic creation of remote objects with load balancing, and object groups. The language constructs are based on those of Charm++[1]. The parallel Java extension is implemented using the Converse[2] interoperability framework, which makes it possible to integrate parallel libraries written in Java with modules in other parallel languages in a single application. Keywords: parallel, message-driven programming, object-oriented, Java 1 Introduction Java, as a programming language, has seen phenomenal growth in the past few years. The initial appeal of Java was related to its connection to the Web. However, its benefits a.