The fundamental ideas of distributed objects have changed little in the last 20 years. Existing languages are retrofitted with transparent distribution mechanisms based on proxies. Experiments with mobile code demonstrate its power but have little ...

Proxies are ubiquitous in distributed systems. They are mainly used to provide transparent access to server objects, and in some cases for additional functions such as caching, message routing, marshalling, and un-marshalling of data. In this paper, we ...

The key issue in distributed programming is partial failure: how to handle failures of part of the system. This unavoidable property causes uncertainty because we cannot know whether a remote object is ever going to reply to a message. It is also the ...

Object-oriented techniques have been very successful so far. However, requirements on software development techniques are consistently changing together with software and hardware environments. Highly distributed and massively concurrent systems will ...

Distributed Objects for the 21st Century is a thematic workshop focusing on the latest trends in distributed object computing. This is the proceedings of the first edition of the workshop. This year, the workshop was hosted by the 23rd European ...