
456 WebSphere and .NET Coexistence
Remote object life cycle
The life-cycle of an object includes creation, usage, and then finally destruction
of the object. In a garbage collected environment such as Java or .NET, much of
this is taken care of by the runtime environment. This is not the case in a
distributed environment. Distributed environments add an additional, potentially
problematic element to the object life-cycle. In a distributed environment, the real
object lives on the server, while the client only has a proxy to that object. An
additional mechanism must be added to ensure resources are managed
correctly in a distributed environment ...