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Java RMI, which had the misguided goal of making objects (the whole world was fully in the grip of OO religion) appear the same, regardless of whether they were

Java RMI, which had the misguided goal of making objects (the whole world was fully in the grip of OO religion) appear the same, regardless of whether they were local or remote to you.

Chiba-City 9y ago
I was going to mention RMI, but couldn't recall the TLA. Does anyone else remember LANS and Windows NetDDE? That got end user machines involved in "distributed" computations.
- charlieflowers 9y ago
  COM+ also had distributed transactions. I was fortunate not to work with it too much.
  - flukus 9y ago
    Was this in the protocol? I thought that was around the same time as DTCC which is pretty good IMO.
    - charlieflowers 9y ago
      I believe COM+ came along and subsumed DTCC, but I'm not sure.