Technique for programmatically creating distributed object programs
US6157960A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | May 7, 1997 |
| Grant date | Dec 5, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 7, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/548
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The automatic object distribution of the present invention allows object oriented programs to be run as distributed programs without any explicit networking code, and without using an interface definition language (IDL). The present invention allows programmers to experiment with different distributions without complicating the programming task. It accomplishes this by generating two proxies that allow method calls written for local invocation to be invoked over a network. These dynamically-generated proxies allow calls to flow across a network as if they were local.
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