Distributed Objects—A Welcome Abstraction
Today most developers accept object-oriented design and programming as the tenets of modern software development. Whenever humans have to deal with anything as complex as creating large software systems, using effective abstractions is critical. Objects are the fundamental abstractions used today. Therefore, if developers acknowledge the benefits of objects, it makes sense to apply them to distributed scenarios.
Distributed object technologies allow objects running on a certain machine to be accessed from applications or objects running on other machines. Just as RPC makes remote procedures seem like local ones, distributed object technologies make remote objects appear local. DCOM, CORBA, Java RMI, ...
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