Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, XML Services, and Clients
Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, XML Services, and Clients
Expressive and safe static reflection with MorphJ
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
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Proxies are ubiquitous in distributed systems. They are mainly used to provide transparent access to server objects, and in some cases for additional functions such as caching, message routing, marshalling, and un-marshalling of data. In this paper, we discuss several software engineering problems associated with using proxies in a distributed system. We believe that proxies in distributed systems suffer from: 1) redundant code 2) multiple data translations that have to be written before data is marshalled for transfer over the wire, and 3) in the case when proxies are automatically generated, there is no universal or generic mapping (to date) from XML types to Object types and vice versa. We describe these problems using an example, and discuss the partial solutions provided by prior research. A better understanding of these problems may help show the way towards a future solution.