Chapter 26
Distributed Objects
We began this book by asserting that an object-oriented program should properly be envisioned as a community of agents, interacting with each other in order to achieve a shared objective.
Nothing in this picture suggests that all these agents must exist in the same program, or even on the same computer. Much of what we have discussed in earlier chapters was concerned with limiting the connections between components. Thus, the object-oriented model lends itself quite naturally to the idea of distributed computing, where portions of a computing task are executed on one machine and other portions on a different machine. ...
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