Very simple version of Isolates.

tests/isolate/spawn_uri_vm_test.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 // Example of spawning an isolate from a URI
 // Note: the following comment is used by test.dart to additionally compile the
 // other isolate's code.
 // OtherScripts=spawn_uri_child_isolate.dart
 library spawn_tests;
 import 'dart:isolate';
 import '../../pkg/unittest/lib/unittest.dart';
 
 main() {
   test('isolate fromUri - send and reply', () {
     ReceivePort port = new ReceivePort();
-    port.receive(expectAsync2((msg, _) {
-      port.close();
+    port.first.then(expectAsync1((msg) {
       expect(msg, equals('re: hi'));
     }));
 
-    SendPort s = spawnUri('spawn_uri_child_isolate.dart');
-    s.send('hi', port.toSendPort());
+    Isolate.spawnUri(Uri.parse('spawn_uri_child_isolate.dart'),
+                     ['hi'], port.sendPort);
   });
 }