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Based on the experience with developing distributed applications in Emerald, this paper argues that distribution and objects are orthogonal concepts and that they thus can be developed separately: The object and process structure in many distributed application can be developed independently of distribution. We discuss this claim using the models and paradigms of the Emerald system.
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Jul, E. (1994). Separation of distribution and objects. In: Guerraoui, R., Nierstrasz, O., Riveill, M. (eds) Object-Based Distributed Programming. ECOOP 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 791. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017533
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