This document is an introduction to using the Aleph Toolkit, a collection of Java tm packages implementing a simple, platform-independent distributed shared object system. It does not describe the mechanics of how to install or run the toolkit, which may vary from site to site. For that kind of information, please see the User's Guide . Each PE is a Java Virtual Machine, with its own address space.
PEs can share global objects.
PEs can synchronize by Event objects which support reliable ordered multicast. To illustrate how remote threads work, we will construct a Hello class implementing the customary Hello World application. Every remote thread must extend the abstract class aleph. Here, this method starts by creating an instance of a remote thread object. Next, the program creates an aleph.