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Scriptic: Parallel Programming in Extended Java

Authors: Delft, André van

Abstract:

Scriptic is an expression based extension to the Java programming language, targeted at user interfaces, simulations and parallel computing on shared memory systems. The extras are mainly founded on the theory of Process Algebra: constructs for non-deterministic choice, parallelism and communica-tion. By default, these parallel constructs have interleaving seman-tics, rather than multi-threading or forking. Specific Java code fragments may run in their own threads or handle events from the windowing system. This makes interactive applications such as arcade games execute as fast as corresponding plain Java versions. GUI components such as buttons and menu items are enabled and disabled when applicable, without additional programming. This paper covers an example application in Scriptic, an overview of the language constructs, the implementation, originality, previous work and current work.

Proceedings:

Proceedings of WoTUG-20: Parallel Programming and Java, André W. P. Bakkers, 1997, pp 17 - 33 published by IOS Press, Amsterdam

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