A.2. The Vision of Unified Objects
There is an overall vision of distributed object-oriented computing in which, from the programmer’s point of view, there is no essential distinction between objects that share an address space and objects that are on two machines with different architectures located on different continents. While this view can most recently be seen in such works as the Object Management Group’s Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)[1], it has a history that includes such research systems as Arjuna[2], Emerald[3], and Clouds[4].
In such systems, an object, whether local or remote, is defined in terms of a set of interfaces declared in an interface definition language. The implementation of the object is independent ...
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