System and method to control and administer distributed object servers using first class distributed objects

摘要

A networked computer system contains a number of host computers with servers that provide various functionality to distributed clients on the network. Clients are able to access runtime information about servers on remote host computers, even where the clients have only object references to the servers through the presence of an embedded first class object within each server process. The first class object can be used to determine the process identification of the server process, counts of active objects and implementations in the server process, and to control tracing and logging functions provided by application programming interfaces utilized by the server.