ProcessWall

1. Name:
   ProcessWall

2. Source:
   University of Colorado Arcadia Project.

3. Brief description:
   The ProcessWall is a process state server providing storage for process states plus operations for defining and manipulating the structure of those states. It separates the state of a software process from any program for constructing that state. Instead, client programs implement the processes for operating on the process state.

4. Evaluation against applicable general dimensions:
   1. Availability: commercial/licensed/public domain
      Public domain.

   2. Cost:
      None; it can be made available via anonymous FTP.

   3. Degree of support/maturity/testing/usage:
      It is currently under development. An alpha version may be made available in selected cases.

   4. Speed:
      Unknown.

   5. Computing platforms:
      Most variants of BSD Unix with Berkeley sockets.
      Required Support Systems:
      The ProcessWall has the following known dependencies:
      • Ozone.
      • Tcl version 7.3.
      • Tk version 3.6.
      • Gnu G++ version 2.3.3 or later.

   6. Language compatibilities:
      It is written in C++.

   7. Footprint:
      Approximately 10 megabytes for source and binary, not including support systems.

   8. Openness/integrability/source availability:
      Source is freely available.

   9. Extensibility:
      Via Tcl and dynamic loading.

   10. Pedigree:
       Developed by the ARPA sponsored Arcadia project.

5. Contact person(s)

   Dennis Heimbigner
   Computer Science Dept.
   University of Colorado
   Boulder, CO 80309-0430
   dennis@cs.colorado.edu
   (303) 492-6643
   (303) 492-2844 - fax

6. Pointers to literature, demos, etc.:
   Via anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.colorado.edu (128.138.243.151)
   File: /pub/cs/techreports/arcadia/wall/wall.ps.Z (paper)