The JR Programming Language: Concurrent Programming in an Extended Java

by Ronald A. Olsson, Aaron W. Keen

Overview

JR is an extension of the Java programming language with additional concurrency mechanisms based on those in the SR (Synchronizing Resources) programming language. The JR implementation executes on UNIX-based systems (Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris) and Windows-based systems. It is available free from the JR webpage. This book describes the JR programming language and illustrates how it can be used to write concurrent programs for a variety of applications. This text presents numerous small and large example programs. The source code for all programming examples and the given parts of all programming exercises are available on the JR webpage. Dr. Ronald A. Olsson and Dr. Aaron W. Keen, the authors of this text, are the designers and implementors of JR.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402080852
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/06/2004
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #774
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Extensions for Concurrency.- Overview of Extensions.- OP-Methods, Operations, and Capabilities.- Concurrent Execution.- Synchronization Using Shared Variables.- Semaphores.- Asynchronous Message Passing.- Remote Procedure Call.- Rendezvous.- Virtual Machines.- The Dining Philosophers.- Exceptions.- Inheritance of Operations.- Inter-Operation Invocation Selection Mechanism.- Applications.- Parallel Matrix Multiplication.- Solving PDEs: Grid Computations.- The Traveling Salesman Problem.- A Distributed File System.- Discrete Event Simulation.- Interfacing JR and GUIs.- Preprocessors for Other Concurrency Notations.