Meeting the Goal of Simplicity
A key objective is to avoid (re)implementing a “full-blown” distributed object system.
- There is currently no reference faulting mechanism.
Leverage JSP symbolic naming scheme.
The granularity of fetch is the closure of a named object.
- There is no synchronous update/invalidation mechanism.
Each replica sees a self-consistent state...but it may be stale.
Updates propagate all modified objects in the shared view.
- Represent references as OIDs, but only on the wire.