Mandala/JACOb User’s Guide – February 22,

This document describes the Mandala/JACOb subpackage, a framework for dynamic reflective asynchronous remote method invocation entirely written in JavaTM 1. Dy-namism means that object’s class do not have to be written with the remote feature in mind as in RMI to be remotely accessible in an asynchronous manner. It is entirely based on the concept of active container as JACOb, Java Active Con-tainer of Objects is an implementation of this concept in Java. This concept imple-mentation essentially provides the dynamic remote aspect of objects.JACOb uses the RAMI library which provides mechanisms related to reflective asynchronous method invocation: chained asynchronism, exception handling, and transparency