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Developing a distributed application is hard due to the comp- lexity inherent to distributed communication. Moreover, distributed ob- ject communication technology is always changing, todays edge technol- ogy will become tomorrows legacy technology. This paper proposes an incremental approach to allow a divide and conquer strategy that copes with these problems. It presents a design pattern for distributed object communication. The proposed solution decouples distributed object com- munication from object specific functionalities. It further decouples log- ical communication from physical communication. The solution enforces an incremental development process and encapsulates the underlying dis- tribution mechanisms. The paper uses a stage-based design description which allow design description at a different level of abstraction than code.
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Rito Silva, A., Assis Rosa, F., Gonçalves, T., Antunes, M. (2001). Distributed Proxy: A Design Pattern for the Incremental Development of Distributed Applications. In: Emmerich, W., Tai, S. (eds) Engineering Distributed Objects. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1999. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45254-0_15
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