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From: eric@diku.dk (Eric Jul.)
Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: integrating RPC into an Object-oriented system
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.115403.14012@diku.dk>
Date: 2 Aug 90 11:54:03 GMT
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gilstrap@aslan.sbc.com (Brian Gilstrap) writes:


>The subject 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.

>Related thoughts (e.g. integrating TCP with OO systems) are welcome as well.

>Thanks,

>Brian R. Gilstrap
>gilstrap@aslan.sbc.com
>gilstrap@aslan.swbt.com
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>Copyright (c) 1990 by Brian R. Gilstrap.  You may redistribute (my portions of)
>this material for free if and only if your recipients may also do so.

As part of the Emerald project at the University of Washington, I've
implemented remote object invocation in the distributed, object-based
language Emerald.
Here's a few references:

* Black et al, "Object Structure in Emerald", OOPSLA '86
* Black et al, "Distribution and Abstract Types in Emerald", IEEE Trans. on
  Software Engineering, vol. SE-13, no. 1, Jan. 1987.
* Jul et al, "Fine-Grained Mobility in the Emerald System", ACM Trans. on
  Computer Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, Feb. 1988.
* Jul, "Object Mobility in a Distributed Object-Oriented System", Ph.D.
  thesis, available as DIKU technical report 89/1.

Also interesting is: Almes et al, "The Eden System: A Technical Review",
IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, vol. SE-11, no. 1, Jan. 1985.

-- Eric Jul
Univ. of Copenhagen
eric@diku.dk