Application World: Distributed Frameworks

• RPC, RMI, CORBA, COM, ...
• General rules for marshalling data and invoking remote applications
• Platform-specific, although "platform" means something new

And Now, The Bad News

• Some frameworks have high cost adoption curve
• Constraints on data
• De facto vendor lock-in to a framework vendor

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