2.1 The basic building blocks

The main patterns of the distribution library are:

Figure 1 shows an example of a distributed system with three ensembles. The arrows symbolize object references. For example, a shell instance knows the ensemble on which it is running by having a reference to the ensemble object.


[1] However, the distribution library allows several ensembles to coexist. See section 5.4


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