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Subject: Distribution in BETA ?
Date: 11 Mar 1998 14:21:31 GMT
Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany
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Hi out there !

Has anyone used BETA Distribution successfully and can tell me how to do it ?
The problem I am facing is the following:

I have got a simple pattern (person with a text name attribute) with accessor 
methods for the name attribute. I want an object of this type to be 
distributed that means a server instantiates a person object and "vends" 
itself to all clients that may contact the server.
Because the clients know the server's interface they can ask the server for 
it's person object (the Server has an accessor method for getting it's
person object).
And there's the problem: the client always gets a none reference and not the
person object that was created on the server !!
I tried several combinations: no matter if the Person pattern inherits from remoteable 
or not, whether the server's person object is instantiated dynamically or statically,
.... nothing helps, it just seems the distribution mechanism doesn't
copy the server's person object or the proxy mechanism doesn't work...
or I just didn't get the point.

Thanks for help !