%0 Conference Paper %1 JCoBox %A Schäfer, Jan %A Poetzsch-Heffter, Arnd %B ECOOP 2010 -- Object-Oriented Programming %C Berlin %D 2010 %I Springer %K Actors AmbientTalk CoBoxes Semantics %P 275--299 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-14107-2_13 %T JCoBox: Generalizing Active Objects to Concurrent Components %V 6183 %X Concurrency in object-oriented languages is still waiting for a satisfactory solution. For many application areas, standard mechanisms like threads and locks are too low level and have shown to be error-prone and not modular enough. Lately the actor paradigm has regained attention as a possible solution to concurrency in OOLs. We propose JCoBox: a Java extension with an actor-like concurrency model based on the notion of concurrently running object groups, so-called coboxes . Communication is based on asynchronous method calls with standard objects as targets. Cooperative multi-tasking within coboxes allows for combining active and reactive behavior in a simple and safe way. Futures and promises lead to a data-driven synchronization of tasks. This paper describes the concurrency model, the formal semantics, and the implementation of JCoBox, and shows that the performance of the implementation is comparable to state-of-the-art actor-based language implementations for the JVM. %@ 978-3-642-14106-5

@inproceedings{JCoBox, abstract = {Concurrency in object-oriented languages is still waiting for a satisfactory solution. For many application areas, standard mechanisms like threads and locks are too low level and have shown to be error-prone and not modular enough. Lately the actor paradigm has regained attention as a possible solution to concurrency in OOLs. We propose JCoBox: a Java extension with an actor-like concurrency model based on the notion of concurrently running object groups, so-called coboxes . Communication is based on asynchronous method calls with standard objects as targets. Cooperative multi-tasking within coboxes allows for combining active and reactive behavior in a simple and safe way. Futures and promises lead to a data-driven synchronization of tasks. This paper describes the concurrency model, the formal semantics, and the implementation of JCoBox, and shows that the performance of the implementation is comparable to state-of-the-art actor-based language implementations for the JVM.}, added-at = {2011-12-26T18:40:29.000+0100}, address = {Berlin}, affiliation = {University of Kaiserslautern}, author = {Sch\"{a}fer, Jan and Poetzsch-Heffter, Arnd}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28562aceffdfc79c647899d86214e0477/gron}, booktitle = {ECOOP 2010 -- Object-Oriented Programming}, description = {Abstract - SpringerLink}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-14107-2_13}, interhash = {52cc28cc100c86316a321e76bcb18c67}, intrahash = {8562aceffdfc79c647899d86214e0477}, isbn = {978-3-642-14106-5}, keyword = {Computer Science}, keywords = {Actors AmbientTalk CoBoxes Semantics}, pages = {275--299}, publisher = {Springer}, series = {LNCS}, timestamp = {2015-08-28T16:06:40.000+0200}, title = {JCoBox: Generalizing Active Objects to Concurrent Components}, volume = 6183, year = 2010 }