An Object Oriented Approach to Fault Tolerant Software

In this paper we are interested in the use of software techniques for fault tolerance in the framework of distributed object oriented programming. We survey different degrees of integration between paradigms for object oriented software development and those for fault tolerance. We then provide the outline of a unifying approach to fault tolerance in object oriented systems. This approach, named Meta Object for Fault Tolerance (MOFT) has been developed in order to extend the Recovery Meta Program (RMP) methodology to object oriented programming