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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev@xml.org
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:07:56 -0000
Jim Ancona wrote,
> The definitive paper on this problem is "A Note on
> Distributed Computing" by Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann
> Wollrath, and Sam Kendall. It's well worth reading for anyone
> working on distributed systems.
Seconded.
In fact I suspect that the content of my post could probably be
traced back to that paper fairly directly.
> Some of the authors are the designers of RMI, so RMI at least
> tries to deal with these issues.
Indeed. I hope I didn't suggest otherwise.
Funnily enough one of the commonest complaints I've heard from
people using RMI is along the lines of: "But why do all the
methods have to throw RemoteException? Why can't a remote
object appear just like a local one?".
Cheers,
Miles
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+44 (0)20 8817 4030 London, W6 0LJ, England
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