Jini™ Specifications, The, Second Edition

A.5. Partial Failure and Concurrency

While unlikely, it is at least logically possible that the differences in latency and memory access between local computing and distributed computing could be masked. It is not clear that such a masking could be done in such a way that the local computing paradigm could be used to produce distributed applications, but it might still be possible to allow some new programming technique to be used for both activities. Such a masking does not even seem to be logically possible, however, in the case of partial failure and concurrency. These aspects appear to be different in kind in the case of distributed and local computing.^[2]

^[2] In fact, authors such as Schroeder[12] and Hadzilacos and Toueg[13] take partial ...