Local and remote client-server interface transparency in distributed software systems

摘要

A distributed software system ( 10 ) includes at least one server component ( 22 ) that supports one or more server objects having associated data and at least one client component ( 24 ) that is distributed from the server component ( 22 ). The client component ( 24 ) accesses data associated with one or more of the server objects according to a scheme making it substantially transparent to the client component ( 24 ) whether the server component ( 22 ) is local to or remote from the client component ( 24 ).