Layered, Server-based Support for Object-Oriented Application
Development
Guruduth Banavar,
Douglas Orr, Gary Lindstrom
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
{banavar,dbo,lindstrom}@cs.utah.edu
Abstract
This paper advocates the idea that the physical modularity (file
structure) of application components supported by conventional
OS environments can be elevated to the level of logical modularity,
which in turn can directly support application development in an
object-oriented manner. We demonstrate this idea through a system-wide
server that manages the manipulation of such components effctively.
The server is designed to be a fundamental operating system service
responsible for binding and mapping component instances into client
address spaces. We show how this model solves some longstanding problems
with the management of application components in existing application
development environments. We demonstrate that this model's effectiveness
derives from its support for the cornerstones of OO programming:
classes and their instances, encapsulation, and several forms of inheritance.
Full paper appears as "Best Paper" in Proceedings
of the Fourth International Workshop on Object Orientation in
Operating Systems, Lund, Sweden, August 1995. Also available as
University of Utah Computer Science Technical Report UUCS-95-007.
spo@cs.utah.edu
Last modified on Thu Aug 17 1995