Distributed Object - Local Vs Distributed Objects

Local Vs Distributed Objects

Local and distributed objects differ in many respects. Here are some of them:

  1. Life cycle : Creation, migration and deletion of distributed objects is different from local objects
  2. Reference : Remote references to distributed objects are more complex than simple pointers to memory addresses
  3. Request Latency : A distributed object request is orders of magnitude slower than local method invocation
  4. Object Activation : Distributed objects may not always be available to serve an object request at any point in time
  5. Parallelism : Distributed objects may be executed in parallel.
  6. Communication : There are different communication primitives available for distributed objects requests
  7. Failure : Distributed objects have far more points of failure than typical local objects
  8. Security : Distribution makes them vulnerable to attack.

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