Live Distributed Objects: Enabling the Active Web

Distributed computing has been slow to benefit from the productivity revolution that has transformed the desktop. We still treat the Web as a separate technology space: programmers develop network applications very differently from local ones. “Live Distributed Objects” promise to change this dynamic by enabling an active web, setting the stage for an exciting new style of distributed applications. The key technologies are an exceptionally scalable multicast infrastructure and a clean integration with the runtime environment.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: INTERNET
• Authors: Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev
• Keywords: Distributed Computing, INTERNET 2007, Scalable Multicast Infrastructure, Separate Technology Space