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Object abstraction is indispensable to construction of distributed applications to encapsulate the details of execution entities. By applying an RPC technology integrated with virtual memory management, this paper presents a novel approach to implementing migratable distributed objects. The novelties of the approach are transparency achieved at the instruction code level, distributed dynamic methods, and applicability to heterogeneous environments. The instruction code level transparency naturally accomplishes object migration and enables efficient manipulation of migrated objects. The distributed dynamic methods provide the programmers with flexible control of activities.
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Kono, K., Kato, K., Masuda, T. (1996). An implementation method of migratable distributed objects using an RPC technique integrated with virtual memory management. In: Cointe, P. (eds) ECOOP ’96 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1098. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053067
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