Refactoring efforts 2011-2013

The EU has funded the ADVANCE project to improve and refactor the S-Net technology.

Some of the effort is guided by technical proposals documented below.

Proposals

• 1. Language interface clean-up
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Common interface visible from box code
  • 1.3. Field database
  • 1.4. Concrete type database
  • 1.5. Environment-managed API (EMA)
  • 1.6. Field access using the language-managed API (LMA)
  • 1.7. Discussion about field ownership
  • 1.8. Wrapping up
• 2. Scalar fields
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Syntax at box interface
  • 2.3. Interface in boxes
  • 2.4. Rationale for not introducing more primitive types
  • 2.5. Summary of types usable at box interface
  • 2.6. Open discussion
• 3. Dynamic box registration
  • 3.1. Record slot types
  • 3.2. Box signatures
  • 3.3. Box registration
  • 3.4. Universal box wrapper
  • 3.5. Box metadata retrieval and execution
  • 3.6. Putting it all together
  • 3.7. Scenarios
• 4. Multithreaded SaC in S-Net
  • 4.1. Public interfaces provided by SaC
  • 4.2. LPEL extensions to support SaC