This sounds a lot like CORBA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A

This sounds a lot like CORBA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Ar...). The big problem with distributed classes is that network communication links are fragile and you need to bake how to deal with failures into your methodology. Erlang handles this in a way that Joe Armstrong explains here: http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/05/road-we-didnt-go-down.html http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2008/05/road-we-didn...