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'''Distributed objects''' are [[Computer software | software]] modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple [[Computer | computerscomputer]]s connected via [[Computer network | network]] or in different [[Process (computing) | processes]] inside the same computer. One object sends a message to another object in a remote machine or process to perform some task. The results are sent back to the calling object.

See also [[Internet protocol suite]].

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== Local vs Distributed Objects ==

Local and distributed objects differs in many dimentionsdimensions<ref>W. Emmerich (2000) Engineering distributed objects, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.</ref> here is some of them:

# Life cycle : Creation, migration and deletion of distributed objects is different from local objects.

# Reference : Remote references to distributed objects are more complex than simple pointer to memory address.

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== Examples ==

Distributed objects are implemented in [[Objective-C]] using the [[Cocoa (API) | Cocoa API]] with the NSConnection class and supporting objects.

Distributed objects are used in [[Java RMI]].

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[[CORBA]] lets one build distributed mixed object systems.

[[Component_Object_ModelComponent Object Model|DCOM]] is a framework for distributed objects on Microsoft platform.

[[DDObjects]] is a framework for distributed objects using Borland Delphi.

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[http://www.replicanet.com/about.html Distributed Objects using C++]

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