Esec

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esec is the Enterprise SmartEiffel Compiler, focused at creating distributed executables. Its design is quite simple:

• a framework library
• a user library
• a tool

The framework library

The library represents the core of the distribution system.

It contains both sides of the client-server protocol:

• DIST_* and UNICAST_* classes represent the server-side protocol
• REMOTE_* classes represent the client-side protocol

This library is not intended to be directly used.

The user library

That library is meant to be used by developers when coding a distributed application. There are four classes:

• EXCHANGEABLE is the type marker of objects that may communicate between the many processes of the distributed application;
• REMOTE_REPOSITORY is an abstract representation of the client-side of a repository containing EXCHANGEABLE objects;
• REMOTE_UNICAST_REPOSITORY is the canonical implementation of such a repository;
• UNICAST_REPOSITORY is the canonical representation of the server-side EXCHANGEABLE repository.

The tool

(to be completed)