Writing SALSA Programs

SALSA abstracts away many of the difficulties involved in developing distributed open systems. SALSA programs are preprocessed into Java source code. The generated Java code uses a library that supports all the actor's primitives -- mainly creation, migration, and communication. Any Java compiler can then be used to convert the generated code into Java bytecode ready to be executed on any virtual machine implementation (see Table 3.1).

Table 3.1: Steps to Compile and Execute a SALSA Program.

Step	What To Do	Action Taken
1	Create a SALSA program:	Write your SALSA code
	Program.salsa
2	Use the SALSA compiler to	java salsac.SalsaCompiler Program.salsa
	generate a Java source file:
	Program.java
3	Use a Java compiler to	javac Program.java
	generate the Java bytecode:
	Program.class
4	Run your program using the	java Program
	Java Virtual Machine