COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM

摘要

COMMUNICATION SYSTEM The use of the client-server approach to the problem of multiple users of objects in Object-Oriented Systems is well known. An alternative approach is disclosed where a shared object is created which is copied to all system nodes requiring access to the object and a used-by table created identifying the nodes holding a copy of the object. When the object is updated by operations at one of the nodes then the copies identified by the used-by table are also updated.