Patent ID: 6249803
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
Apparatus for providing a framework for the execution of server-specified code at selected points during a method invocation in a distributed object system having clients and servers, the apparatus comprising:a plurality of server filters, each of the server filters having an identifier and executing selected code during the method invocation;a server filter registry in the server object, the server filter registry containing filter identifiers and a method for retrieving the filter identifiers from the registry; anda client filter registry in the client object, the client filter registry containing filter identifiers, exported from the server object and stored in the client filter registry in response to an invocation of the method for retrieving the filter identifiers wherein the client object can selectively invoke one or more of said server filters using the filter identifiers in the client filter registry during a later method invocation in the distributed object system.