An Architecture for a Wide Area Distributed System . Philip Homburg, Maarten van Steen, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. An Architecture for a Wide Area Distributed System . However , Inferno also includes network protocols and services for distributed programming and a stand alone implementation suitable for minimal hardware environments. Local object representatives hide details like replication and mobility.
Local objects have a standard internal structure that makes it easier to reuse code components.
Philip Homburg, Maarten van Steen, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum. An Architecture for a Wide Area Distributed System . Each replica, however, has its own contact address. By separating object handles and contact addresses, we are able to implement migrating and replicated objects. We do, however, need a way to find the contact addresses of an object.