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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1995
Alan Snyder, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roderick J. Mc Chesney, Redwood City, CA (US);
Mark W. Hapner, San Jose, CA (US);
Arthur A. Van Hoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Maurice Balick, Fairhaven, MD (US);
Raphael Bracho, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for installing distributed objects on a distributed object system is described. In one aspect the distributed objects include wrapper classes that inherit object attributes through an inheritance relationship with a developer-written servant class of objects, the developer-written servant classes inheriting attributes through an optional inheritance relationship with an interface class of objects. In a preferred embodiment, the wrapper classes provide an interface mechanism between the methods of the servant class of objects and the object request broker mechanism of the distributed object system. Also included is an apparatus for creating and installing the distributed object in the memory of a computer on a distributed object system. The invention further includes a mechanism for distinguishing deployed distributed objects from development distributed objects.