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• From: Miles Sabin <msabin@c...>
• To: xml-dev@x...
• Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:07:56 -0000

Jim Ancona wrote,
> The definitive paper on this problem is "A Note on 
> Distributed Computing" by Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann 
> Wollrath, and Sam Kendall. It's well worth reading for anyone 
> working on distributed systems. 

Seconded.

In fact I suspect that the content of my post could probably be
traced back to that paper fairly directly.

> Some of the authors are the designers of RMI, so RMI at least 
> tries to deal with these issues.

Indeed. I hope I didn't suggest otherwise.

Funnily enough one of the commonest complaints I've heard from 
people using RMI is along the lines of: "But why do all the 
methods have to throw RemoteException? Why can't a remote 
object appear just like a local one?". 

Cheers,


Miles

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