ACTOR EXTENSION OF JAVA LANGUAGE IN MPS ENVIRONMENT

2010 , VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2 ( MARCH-APRIL )

ISSN 2226-1494 (print), ISSN 2500-0373 (online)

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Editor-in-Chief

Nikiforov
Vladimir O.
D.Sc., Prof.

Partners

A. Zhukova, M. Mazin

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Abstract

The actor extension described in this article adds parallel functional constructions to imperative Java language.

Such an extension is useful as it makes parallel programming in Java much easier. Actor model implemented by the

extension is well used in functional programming language Erlang. The choice of Meta Programming System

(MPS) as the actor extension creation tool made it possible to create an integrated development environment for the

extension automatically, moreover, the extension is compatible with other language extensions created in MPS.

Keywords: actor model, problem-oriented extension, parallel programming, language-oriented programming