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Citation
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong Hoon Ahnn. "Programming with Live Distributed Objects". Talk or presentation, 12, November, 2008.

Abstract
A component revolution is underway, bringing developers improved productivity and opportunities for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools work well for builders of desktop applications and client-server structured systems, support for other styles of distributed computing has lagged. In this paper, we propose a new programming paradigm and a platform, in which instances of distributed protocols are modeled as “live distributed objects”. Live objects can represent both protocols and higher-level components. They look and feel much like ordinary objects, but can maintain shared state and synchronization across multiple machines within a network. Live objects can be composed in a typesafe manner to build sophisticated distributed applications using a simple, intuitive drag and drop interface, very often without writing any code or having to understand the intricacies of the underlying distributed algorithms.

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  Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong Hoon
  Ahnn. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/490.html"
  ><i>Programming with Live Distributed
  Objects</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  12,
  November, 2008.

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  Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong Hoon
  Ahnn. "Programming with Live Distributed Objects".
  Talk or presentation,  12, November, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{OstrowskiBirmanDolevAhnn08_ProgrammingWithLiveDistributedObjects,
      author = {Krzysztof Ostrowski and Ken Birman and Danny Dolev
                and Jong Hoon Ahnn},
      title = {Programming with Live Distributed Objects},
      day = {12},
      month = {November},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {A component revolution is underway, bringing
                developers improved productivity and opportunities
                for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools
                work well for builders of desktop applications and
                client-server structured systems, support for
                other styles of distributed computing has lagged.
                In this paper, we propose a new programming
                paradigm and a platform, in which instances of
                distributed protocols are modeled as �live
                distributed objects�. Live objects can represent
                both protocols and higher-level components. They
                look and feel much like ordinary objects, but can
                maintain shared state and synchronization across
                multiple machines within a network. Live objects
                can be composed in a typesafe manner to build
                sophisticated distributed applications using a
                simple, intuitive drag and drop interface, very
                often without writing any code or having to
                understand the intricacies of the underlying
                distributed algorithms. },
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/490.html}
  }
  

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