Object-Capability patterns

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This page contains information about common object-capability patterns that have appeared in a number of different object-capability systems.

TBD: Powerbox, Attenuating Facets / Forwaders, Logging Forwarders

An Historical Overview
Pattern	First Described In	Appears In
Sealer-Unsealers	James H. Morris, Jr. Protection in Programming Languages. Communications of the ACM, 16(1):15–21, 1973.	Gedanken, E, KeyKOS, Emily, Caja, Joule, Joe-E
Trademarks	James H. Morris, Jr. Protection in Programming Languages. Communications of the ACM, 16(1):15–21, 1973.	Gedanken, E, KeyKOS
RevocableForwarder	David D. Redell. Naming and Protection in Extensible Operating Systems. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, November 1974.	E, KeyKOS, Emily
Coercers	E. Dean Tribble, Mark S. Miller, Norm Hardy, and David Krieger. Joule: Distributed Application Foundations. Technical Report ADd03.4P, Agorics Inc., Los Altos, December 1995.	Joule, E
Membranes	J. E. Donnelley. A Distributed Capability Computing System, Proc. of the Third International Conference on Computer Communication, pp. 432-440, 1976.	E, DCCS, KeyKOS, Emily, Joe-E/Waterken (? in the form of the Horton pattern)