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ECOOP 1994: Object-Oriented Programming pp 450–473Cite as

Generalizing dispatching in a distributed object system

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Today's distributed computing environment presents a jungle of systems that use different object models, programming languages, and paradigms. Taking maximum advantage of these diverse resources requires that they be able to interoperate. We report on a series of experiments in a distributed object system that show how a flexible notion of dispatching can be used to integrate objects belonging to different models, systems, and paradigms.

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  1. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 02254, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

    Farshad Nayeri, Ben Hurwitz & Frank Manola

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Nayeri, F., Hurwitz, B., Manola, F. (1994). Generalizing dispatching in a distributed object system. In: Tokoro, M., Pareschi, R. (eds) Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052196

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