Active Oberon

Active Oberon is an extension of the programming language Oberon. Objects can be active, ie constitute a thread or process.

Which belongs to the language development environment with a Bluebottle said graphical user interface is to look at rather than a stand-alone operating system. It exists as a " stand-alone " system on the bare hardware of PCs and X86 as an "add -on " for Linux and Microsoft Windows. The kernel, originally Active Object System ( Aos ) called, was renamed for copyright reasons in A2. It synchronizes and manages the collaboration of different active objects. It is based on the Oberon system (see also Native Oberon ), which was developed from the mid-1980s at ETH Zurich (see also Genealogy of the Oberon system ).

Unlike Java or C # objects can not only signals can be synchronized directly on conditions. Thus, the development of parallel programs is simplified.

A newer version of Active Oberon is the Zonnon programming language.