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Decoupled communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for the implementation of applications in the context of open distributed environments. We have developed the Object Space approach which integrates that communication style with object-oriented techniques. It allows encapsulation of protocols for interactions in distributed applications into classes, thus providing a new level of abstraction.
Besides an example application here we describe how decoupled communication as supported by the Object Space may be efficiently implemented in distributed environments. We briefly evaluate our prototypical implementation and develop a more efficient solution. This implementation is itself distributed. It runs on top of UNIX systems connected by a LAN.
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Polze, A. (1995). Objects, Replication and Decoupled Communication in Distributed Environments. In: Franke, K., Hübner, U., Kalfa, W. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79561-9_23
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