INTER-OBJECT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR CLIENT AND SERVER ENVIRONMENT, SERVICE AGENT, SERVICE MANAGER, CLIENT INTERFACE AND SERVER INTERFACE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a client to use the servers with no consciousness of the nodes where the servers exist in a client/server environment where plural servers are scattered. SOLUTION: A server agent 3 is prepared in a communication network where plural servers are scattered to perform the communication between a client 1 and the servers. The agent 3 knows the places of servers and receives the service requests from the client 1 to perform the communication in response to the received requests. Thus, the agent 3 makes the servers perform the service processing and then receives these service processing results to return them to the client 1. The client 1 merely issues the service requests and is never concerned in the places of servers.