Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!not-for-mail
From: Manmathan Muthukumarapillai <mannan@mjolner.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta
Subject: Re: Distribution in BETA ?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 11:56:18 +0100 (MET)
Organization: Mjolner Informatics Aps
Lines: 33
Approved: mailtonews@daimi.aau.dk
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <199803131056.LAA26504@noatun.mjolner.dk>
Reply-To: Manmathan Muthukumarapillai <mannan@mjolner.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.daimi.aau.dk
Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.beta:11453

Have you tried the calculator demo which is placed under the
    "demo/distrubution/calculator" folder.
Is it working properly?

Sincerely
Manmathan Muthukumarapillai

sopr017 writes:
> 
> 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 !
> 
>