Abstract

The object-oriented programming and distributed computing techniques made significant impact on modern software development over the past ten years. Older generation client/server architectures, such as RPC (Remote Procedure Call), do not have an object-oriented model. In these architectures, the client must be aware of where the server is located and how to access the server, and its code must be modified to make use of new services that become available. The next step in the evolution of the client/server architecture is the distributed object management systems, which is the union of object-oriented programming and distributed computing. The significant promise of this technology is that it enables construction of complex applications from reusable software components.