Distributed object

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Software modules that are designed to work together but reside in multiple computer systems throughout the organization. A program in one machine sends a message to an object in a remote machine to perform some processing. The results are sent back to the calling machine.

Distributed objects are used in Java RMI.

CORBA lets us build distributed mixed object systems.