December 2003
Beginner
288 pages
7h 8m
English
One of the primary tenets of this book is that objects are totally self-contained units. With this in mind, it doesn't take much imagination to consider sending objects over a network. In fact, we have used objects traveling over a network in many of the examples throughout this book. A Java applet is a good example of an object being downloaded from a server to a client (browser).
The entire premise of the enterprise is built on the concept of distributed objects. There are many advantages to using distributed objects; perhaps the most interesting is the fact that a system can theoretically invoke objects anywhere on the network. This is a powerful capability, and is the backbone for much ...
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