| Mobile Code
Obliq
Evaluation with respect to Distributed Hypermedia Applications Development Issues:
- Runtime Safety
- Yes, with runtime typechecks
- System Safety
- Yes, with capability-based access control.
- Cross-Platform GUI API
- Obliq is built on Modula-3, and it's been integrated
with the FormsVBT toolkit. FormsVBT only runs on X, but it's
being ported to Win95/NT.
- Thread-aware I/O
- Yes. M3 Rd/Wr interfaces.
- Type system
- prototype-base object system. Wiggin!
- Module System
- Yes. See M3.
- Exceptions
- Yes, see M3.
- FFI
- can link to M3, C.
- TCP/IP API
- M3 Rd/Wr interface.
- Flatten/Serialize/Pickle
- Yes. M3 Pickle.
- Mobile Closures
- Yes. Nifty!
Licensing and other Intellectual Property Rights Issues
See: Copyright info@@
Background:
Connolly
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