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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2003
Skef F. Iterum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ralph B. Campbell, San Jose, CA (US);
Skef F. Iterum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ralph B. Campbell, San Jose, CA (US);
SUN Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates interactions between different versions of software that support remote object invocations. During operation, the system receives a reference to an object that is implemented on a server. Next, the system identifies one or more versions of the object supported by the reference, wherein each successive version of the object inherits methods from a preceding version of the object. The system then invokes a method on the object that is supported by the one or more versions of the object.