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Object‐oriented distributed computing based on remote class reference
Author(s) -
Huang Yan,
Walker David W.,
Rana Omer F.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
concurrency and computation: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1532-0634
pISSN - 1532-0626
DOI - 10.1002/cpe.709
Subject(s) - common object request broker architecture , computer science , distributed object , java , object (grammar) , method , remote procedure call , interoperable object reference , object oriented programming , argument (complex analysis) , class (philosophy) , object model , distributed computing , programming language , database , artificial intelligence , biochemistry , chemistry
Java RMI, Jini and CORBA provide effective mechanisms for implementing a distributed computing system. Recently many numeral libraries have been developed that take advantage of Java as an object‐oriented and portable language. The widely‐used client‐server method limits the extent to which the benefits of the object‐oriented approach can be exploited because of the difficulties arising when a remote object is the argument or return value of a remote or local method. In this paper this problem is solved by introducing a data object that stores the data structure of the remote object and related access methods. By using this data object, the client can easily instantiate a remote object, and use it as the argument or return value of either a local or remote method. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.