Remote method invocation as a first-class citizen

Distributed Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 287-306

  Cazzola, Walter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Java RMI; Reflection; Reflective middleware; Reflective model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MIDDLEWARE; PUBLIC POLICY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS; REFLECTIVE MODELS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0348233431     PISSN: 01782770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00446-003-0094-8     Document Type: Article

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