IR: Objects as Processes

This is a working paper which will probably be rewritten several times in the next months

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AUTHOR: Dr. Gerd Döben-Henisch
COLLABORATORS: Leo Pos und Thore Swindall
FIRST DATE: December 27, 1995
DATE of LAST CHANGE: March-27, 1996

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In our OO-Analysis are all objects 'normally' in parallel (cf. also RUMBAUGH 1993:137), and this means, 'ideally' should every object be represented by an autonomous process (cf. figure below), an object process.

All object processes would then be organized in a hierarchical manner: the main object process would start all object processes of level 1. Every object process of level 1, which has additional internal processes of level 1.1 would start his own subprocesses, and so on.

The realization of such a concept would presuppose that one has either a programming language which supports multiple independent processes (tasks) or at least an operating system, which supports such features and which has a programming interface.

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Comments are welcome to doeb@inm.de

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