Distributed Communities on the Web
Kropf, Peter / Unger, Herwig / Plaice, John / Babin, Gilbert
Communities are groupings of distributed objects that are capable of com- nicating, directly or indirectly, through the medium of a shared context. To support communities on a wide scale will require developments at all levels of computing, from low-level communication protocols supporting transparent - cess to mobile objects, through to distributed operating systems, through to high-level programming models allowing complex interaction betwee...