Francisco Morales

To extend Java's concurrent behavior in a more natural way, in a more object-oriented point of view, we propose an extension to Java's concurrency model that will emulate Eiffel's separate statement. (Eiffel is an object-oriented language with a comprehensive approach to software construction.) The extension permits the attachment of nonphysical processors or threads to objects, thus allowing them to behave in an asynchronous and completely independent manner. This article briefly shows the concurrency tools of the Java programming language, points out their shortcomings, proposes solutions, and ends with the implementation of a solution. It's useful to evaluate Java's concurrent programming model by reviewing how this language implements the concepts explained by Bertrand Meyer and referred to as "The three forces of computation," which represent the statement: "T... (more)