Distributed environment: A conceptual framework using objects
Authors:
James Ang
Affiliation:
Dept. of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511, Singapore
Abstract:
We present a conceptual framework for a distributed office system using concepts inherent to object-oriented formalism. The functions of the active object and the procedure servers are described. So are the attributes of the objects stored in these two servers. In order to endow the individual workstations with as much autonomy as possible, we develop a coarse-grained algorithm for active and procedural object distribution. An office model should have a high level of evolvability. To accommodate this phenomenon we devise a mechanism to enable the model to transit one state to another with a minimum level of perturbation.