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In response to the increasing demand of information processing, the object-oriented and client-server paradigms are becoming more pervasive. While implementation solutions integrating these two paradigms are widespread, there is minimal evidence that the merging of these two concepts has been considered at the design level. Specifically, object-oriented designs remain sequential in essence, and their mapping to a given distributed object-oriented programming language is left to the creativity and/or expertise of software engineers. In this paper, we propose a quantitative approach and a supporting tool to assist the designer in the distribution process. The metrics presented provide an easy way, but still consistent and reliable, to gauge the distribution suitability of various object-oriented design entities.
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Published online: 29 August 2002
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El Guemhioui, K. A framework for distributing object-oriented designs . STTT 4, 381–396 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-002-0090-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-002-0090-5