Institute of Information Science - University of Miskolc

First introduced to object-oriented programming paradigm in software integration. It extends the concept of objects in the “distant objects”.
Distant objects communicate with each other
- they can share both data and methods
Known implementations: Corba and Java-RMI
Marshalling/Unmarshalling concepts appear. Platform independent serialization of the transferred parameters (or data)
Language independent interface description methods with Corba IDL (interface definition language)
Initial concept of Service Registry.
- services are browse-able in an uniform manner.
Despite its antiquity is still supported in the modern application servers (like JBoss, IBM Websphere)