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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
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Subject: Re: integrating RPC into an Object-oriented system
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Date: 20 Jul 90 12:32:35 GMT
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In article <27463@joshua.athertn.Atherton.COM> joshua@Atherton.COM (Flame Bait) writes:
>> = stuff written by gilstrap@aslan.sbc.com (Brian Gilstrap)
>
>> The subject [integrating RPC into an Object-oriented system]
>> pretty much says it all.  Does anyone have any experiences
>> (or pointers to papers or whatever) which they would like to 
>> share?  I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
>I'm not aware of any papers describing this...
>

I looked for three minutes, in only one reference, and found all of
the following:

In 1988 Usenix Conference Proceedings:
	"Wrappers:" Solving the RPC Problem in GNU C++
	Michael D. Tiemann: p. 343

In 1990 Usenix Conference Proceedings:
	Reliable Distributed Programming in C++
	Graham D. Parrington : p. 37

Not really RPC, but interesting if you are not interested in having tunnel
vision about possible solutions to distributed programming:

In 1990 Usenix Conference Proceedings:
	Experiences in Writing a Distributed Particle Simulation Code in C++
	David W. Forslund et. al. : p. 177

	The Conduit: A Communications Abstraction in C++
	Jonathan M. Zweig, et. al. : p. 191


>There are two problems making an RPC system work with an object oriented 
>system.  First, many OO systems are dynamic; they change at run time, often 
>adding new methods or data types.  Second, the describe data differently, 
>often saying this data structure is just like that data structure except 
>for....

From my experience, C++ is especially suitable for use in this area.  A
major aspect of C++ is it is not dynamic, so you don't have to worry
about problem number one.

Fletcher E. Kittredge  fkittred@bbn.com
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