Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside either in multiple computers connected via network or in different 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.
Examples
Distributed objects are implemented in Objective-C using the Cocoa API with the NSConnection class and supporting objects.
Distributed objects are used in Java RMI.
CORBA lets one build distributed mixed object systems.
DCOM is a framework for distributed objects on Microsoft platform.
DDObjects is a framework for distributed objects using Borland Delphi.
Pyro is a framework for distributed objects using the Python programming language.
dRuby is a framework for distributed objects using the Ruby programming language.
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