Summary

The open source project (LGPL license) Mandala provides a new model to deal with both concurrent and distributed programming. Moreover, Mandala focuses on dynamism: objects do not have to be specifically written to be to be accessed asynchronously and remotely. Hence, in a distributed context, objects used asynchronously leads to parallelism. Mandala extends the well-known method invocation paradigm to asynchronous (and potentially remote) method invocation.

• RAMI for Reflective Asynchronous Method Invocation which allows any public method of any Java object to be invoked asynchronously. RAMI is highly customizable using the Factory design pattern and provides different asynchronous policies such as concurrent semantics (threaded and threadpooled policy) and single threaded semantics (fifo and random policy). The subpackage mandala.rami is the implementation of RAMI.
• JACOb for Java Active Container of Objects which allows any public method of any object to be invoked remotely. JACOb uses the concept of active container - modeled in pi-calculus - which enables any object to be remotely accessible by being inserted into a remote active container. JACOb can be used for distributed applications programming, parallel programming, mobile agents programming, aspect programming. JACOb uses the interfaces defined in RAMI ensuring a common view between asynchronous objects and asynchronous remote objects. The subpackage mandala.jacob is the implementation of JACOb.