International Business Machines Corporation

Frank Richard Campagnoni

Michael Haden Conner

Marc Gregory Smith

George Prentice Copeland

Erin Elizabeth Shepler

Raghu Vishwanath Hudli

Venu P Banda

A method for a first process in a first address space to communicate with an object in a second address space including the steps of determining, during runtime of the first process, that a communication link is needed between the first process and a target object in the second address space, generating a proxy object in the first address space corresponding to the target object, and establishing the communication link between the first process and the target object through the proxy object. In addition, an apparatus for a first process in a first address space to communicate with an object in a second address space including apparatus for determining, during runtime of the first process, that a communication link is needed between the first process and a target object in the second address space, apparatus for generating a proxy object in the first address space corresponding to the target object, and apparatus for establishing the communication link between the first process and the target object through the proxy object.

Method and apparatus for utilizing proxy objects to communicate with target objects

A mechanism for passing a request from a calling object in a first address space to a target object in a second address space. First, the request is passed from the calling object to an object request broker (more general term&quest;) to which the calling object is written which normally handles requests to remote objects for the calling object. Responsive to a determination that the target object is foreign to the object request broker, a foreign object request broker to which the target object is written is located. A proxy object is generated according to the protocol of the foreign object request broker and stored in the first address space. A pointer is returned to calling object so that communication from the calling object to the target object may be established through the proxy object.

Universal object request broker encapsulater

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Frank Richard Campagnoni