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Language support for distributed proxies

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Darpan Saini,

Joshua Sunshine,

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DO21 '09: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Distributed Objects for the 21st Century

Article No.: 3, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1557876.1557879

Published: 06 June 2009 Publication History

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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 discuss several software engineering problems associated with using proxies in a distributed system. We believe that proxies in distributed systems suffer from: 1) redundant code 2) multiple data translations that have to be written before data is marshalled for transfer over the wire, and 3) in the case when proxies are automatically generated, there is no universal or generic mapping (to date) from XML types to Object types and vice versa. We describe these problems using an example, and discuss the partial solutions provided by prior research. A better understanding of these problems may help show the way towards a future solution.

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Language support for distributed proxies
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Distributed computing methodologies
    1. Distributed programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
      2. Language types
        Distributed programming languages

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DO21 '09: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Distributed Objects for the 21st Century

June 2009

26 pages

ISBN:9781605585451

DOI:10.1145/1557876

Editors:
Tom Van Cutsem
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Jorge Fox
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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Ole Lehrmann Madsen
Aarhus University, Denmark
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Eric Jul
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Gilad Bracha

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ECOOP '09: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

July 6 - 10, 2009

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