Contents

• Contents
• Overview
  • Architecture
  • Communication Modes
    • Message Exchange: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
    • Message Reception: Pull vs. Push
    • Message Sending vs. Remote Method Invocation
    • 1 Response vs. N Responses
    • Timeout vs. No Timeout
• Group Communication Patterns
  • Utility Classes
    • Messages
    • Data
    • Sets
    • Queue
  • Structural Patterns
    • Channel
    • Synchronous Group Message Call (SyncCall)
    • Message Correlator
    • MUX
    • Demux
    • PullPushAdapter
    • MethodCall
    • RemoteMethodCall
    • MethodInvoker
    • Dispatcher
    • Promise
    • StableStorage
    • LazyEvaluator
  • Behavioral Patterns
    • Group Membership Protocol
    • Failure Detector
    • Voting and Election Protocols
    • 2-Phase Commit
    • Flush Protocol
• Bibliography