Distributed object oriented systems

Abstract

Distributed Objects is one of four competing technologies which include SQL Databases, TP Monitors and Groupware. The promise of Distributed Objects is that the partitioning of systems across networks will become more flexible, more homogeneous, more standardized, resulting in less difficulty to develop future applications. As the name implies, Distributed Objects encompasses two paradigms: the notion of distribution and the notion of object orientation These two concepts converge in what is referred to as middleware. Middleware is the somewhat nebulas domain in-between clients and servers where a great deal of time and effort is often spent in developing applications. In a properly designed Distributed Object System, enterprises have the ability to access any information by any system (or user) which has proper authorization and do so in a uniform and consistent fashion. In an admittedly oversimplified decomposition, two things are required to do this. The first is to make everything (including legacy systems) appear to be object oriented, and the second is to be able to access those objects across systems boundaries.