Definitions

A system of distributed objects is a set of processes not sharing memory where processes can invoke the methods of objects owned by other processes in the set, just as if those objects where owned by the caller (it must provide some degree of transparency).

The management of distributed objects consists of the mechanisms employed by the system for implementing remote references, remote method invocations and any other feature provided by the system (like garbage collection and any other feature provided by the system (like garbage collection).


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