Shared State for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

InterWeave is a distributed middleware system that supports the sharing of strongly typed, pointerrich data structures across a wide variety of hardware architectures, operating systems, and programming languages. As a complement to RPC/RMI, InterWeave facilitates the rapid development of maintainable code by allowing processes to access shared data using ordinary reads and writes. To maximize performance on bandwidth-limited networks, InterWeave caches data locally, leverages application-specific coherence requirements to minimize the frequency of updates, and employs two-way diffing to update only those data that have actually changed. We hav