Distributed Objects from a Patterns Perspective

Nowadays, infrastructures for Distributed Object Computing such as COM, CORBA or RMI have become common place. When building software systems with one of these technologies it is essential to understand the fundamental concepts behind them. But what are the concepts behind these infrastructures? Actually, there is no architectural description available, neither for DCOM nor for CORBA or RMI. However, only with this knowledge it is possible to build distributed systems that adhere to functional and non-functional requirements. With patterns a new method for building and also for analyzing software systems has emerged.Patterns help to get a substantial understanding of the structure and dynamics of distributed objects systems such as DCOM or CORBA. The tutorial presents a pattern system that covers many fundamental aspects of Distributed Object Computing. A distributed objects infrastructures. web of patterns will be presented that together reveal the architecture of distributed objects infrastructures.