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The ESPRIT Project 237 Communication Systems. Architecture (CSA) is concerned with the development and demonstration of an architecture for distributed office systems. The architecture is based on an object oriented approach. The system view which it supplies to the application programmer hides the distribution of the system components.
The system view is provided by a three layered hierarchy of abstract machines. In the first abstraction step a local but unique object interface is provided which is independent from the heterogeneity of the underlying system software and hardware. In the second abstraction step the individual systems are interconnected to a distributed object machine with a single system image. Finally the third abstraction step provides facilities for the interaction with non-CSA architectures.
This paper outlines the concepts of the distributed abstract object machine which itself is constructed from objects.
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Behr, JP., Fink, B., Kraemer, R., Stecher, R. (1988). A Distributed Abstract Object Machine for the Office. In: Wolfinger, B.E. (eds) Vernetzte und komplexe Informatik-Systeme. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74230-9_10
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