An Overview of MOLDS: A Meta-Object Library for Distributed Systems

This paper presents a library of meta-objects suitable for developing distributed systems. The reflexive architecture of Guaraná makes it possible for these meta-objects to be easily combined in order to form complex, dynamically reconfigurable meta-level behavior. We briefly describe the implementation of Guaraná on Java. Then, we explain how several meta-level services, such as persistence, distribution, replication and atomicity, can be implemented in a transparent and flexible way.

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