ARJUNA
\ˈɑːd͡ʒuːnə], \ˈɑːdʒuːnə], \ˈɑː_dʒ_uː_n_ə]\
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(Hindu mythology) the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature of being and of God and how humans can come to know God
By Princeton University
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An object-oriented programming system developedby a team led by Professor Santosh Shrivastava at theUniversity of Newcastle, implemented entirely in C++.Arjuna provides a set of tools for the construction offault-tolerant distributed applications. It exploitsfeatures found in most object-oriented languages (such asinheritance) and only requires a limited set of systemcapabilities commonly found in conventional operatingsystems. Arjuna provides the programmer with classes thatimplement atomic transactions, object level recovery,concurrency control and persistence. The system isportable, modular and flexible; the system software has beenavailable via FTP since 1992. (http://arjuna.ncl.ac.uk/).
By Denis Howe
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