On the Power of Abstraction ― a Look at the Paradigms and Technologies in Distributed Applications

摘要

Whole books have been written on the large array of technologies available for developing distributed applications. This article does not claim to achieve the same task in the limited space of one paper. It does present an enumeration of the various paradigms for distributed applications, as well as a classification of the existing well-known tools, facilities, and technologies based on these paradigms. However, the focus of this article is the use of abstraction in distributed computing, as illustrated by these paradigms.