Transparent communication for distributed objects in Java

Abstract

We describe a native-code implementation of Java that supportsdistributed objects. In order to foster the correctnessof distributed programs, remote access is syntactically andsemantically indistinguishable from local access. This transparencyis provided by the runtime system through the implicitgeneration of remote references to an object when itis passed as an argument or returned from a remote methodcall. Consistency is achieved through the use of a distributed(and thus scalable)...