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Is object orientation a good thing for distributed systems?

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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, Animal Farm, George Orwell.

Object Orientation is a current hot theme for researchers and developers of distributed systems. This paper reviews the efforts of a number of such teams, and considers why, and to what extent, they have adopted a common paradigm.

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Horn, C. (1990). Is object orientation a good thing for distributed systems?. In: Schröder-Preikschat, W., Zimmer, W. (eds) Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52609-9_77

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