Distributed objects are software modules that are designed to work together, but reside in multiple computer systems throughout an 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.
See also Internet protocol suite.
Examples
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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