Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web
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Distributed computing has lagged behind the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop in recent years. Programmers still generally treat the Web as a separate technology space and develop network applications using low-level message-passing primitives or unreliable Web services method invocations. Live distributed objects are designed to offer developers a scalable multicast infrastructure that's tightly integrated with a runtime environment.
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Index Terms:
spotlight, distributed computing, live objects, active web, Quicksilver, .NET, J2EE
Citation:
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, "Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 72-78, Nov./Dec. 2007, doi:10.1109/MIC.2007.131