2. Development environment for RPC

This section is dedicated to programming a distributed application using the client-server model. This of course includes programming the client, programming the server and programming the exchanges between the client and server programs. Ideally, all these aspects should be programmed using a single programming language that integrates distribution. There have been many attempts to define such a language, based in particular on existing object-oriented languages (C++ and Eiffel among others), which have resulted in experimental prototypes.

This approach has a number of advantages, as the integration of distribution into the language concepts makes distribution processing elementary (or even non-existent) for the application programmer. The language compiler generates stub code directly, without the need for an IDL. In addition, the libraries associated with the...