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In [[distributed programming]], a '''portable object''' is an [[object (computer science)|object]] which can be accessed through a normal [[method (computer science)|method]] call while possibly residing in memory on another [[computer]].<ref>{{Cite patent|number=WO2006136923A1|title=Method and system using a portable object for providing an extension to a server|gdate=2006-12-28|invent1=Castillo|invent2=Siegelin|inventor1-first=Laurent|inventor2-first=Christoph|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2006136923A1/}}</ref> It is [[portability|portable]] in the sense that it moves from machine to machine, irrespective of [[operating system]] or [[computer architecture]]. This mobility is the end goal of many [[remote procedure call]] systems.

TheAn advantage of portable objects is that they are easy to use and very [[expressivityexpressive power (computer science)|expressive]], allowing [[programmer]]s to be completely unaware that objects reside in other locations. Detractors cite this as a fault, as naïvesome programmers will not expect [[computer network|network-related]] errors or the [[unbounded nondeterminism]] associated with large networks.

==See also==

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*[[CORBA]] and its [[Portable Object Adapter]]

* [[CORBA]] Common Object Request Broker Architecture, cross-language cross-platform object model

* [[Portable Object Adapter]] part of the CORBA standard

* [[D-Bus]] current open cross-language cross-platform [[Freedesktop.org]] Object Model

* [[Bonobo (GNOME)|Bonobo]] deprecated [[GNOME]] cross-language Object Model

* [[Desktop communication protocol|DCOP]] deprecated [[KDE]] interprocess and software componentry communication system

* [[KParts]] [[KDE]] component framework

* [[XPCOM]] Mozilla applications cross-platform Component Object Model

* [[Component Object Model|COM]] Microsoft Windows only cross-language Object Model

* [[Distributed Component Object Model|DCOM]] Distributed COM, extension making COM able to work in networks

* [[Common Language Infrastructure]] current .NET cross-language cross-platform Object Model

* [[IBM System Object Model]] SOM, a component system from IBM used in OS/2

* [[Java Beans]]

* [[Java Remote Method Invocation]] (Java RMI)

* [[Internet Communications Engine]]

* [[Language binding]]

* [[Foreign function interface]]

* [[Calling convention]]

* [[Name mangling]]

* [[Application programming interface]] - API

* [[Application Binary Interface]] - ABI

* [[Comparison of application virtual machines]]

* [[SWIG]] open source automatic interfaces bindings generator from many languages to many languages

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==References==

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