The Design of a System for Distributing Shared objects

The primary motivation for the work described in this paper is to design a platform for building applications that are intended for use by a group of people. The paper introduces the requirements for applications in which people use workstations on a local area network to share information and to communicate with one another. The paper discusses how we addressed these requirements in the context of three example applications - a departmental database, a room booking program and a shared spreadsheet. 1 Introduction This paper discusses the design and implementation of a distributed objectoriented programming environment. Our motivation for designing this environment is to provide a platform for building applications that are intended to be used by the members of a group of people who would like to use computers for communication and sharing information. We assume that users have access to workstations connected to a local area network. The type of application we have in mind is illustr..