Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences

This paper describes a new architecture for high performance distributed applications and a supporting framework. This architecture applies object-oriented design and implementation techniques to build a framework for platform-independent distributed application specification and implementation using existing programming languages and operating systems. It utilizes an efficient and extensible layering architecture that allows new abstract data types, new presentation-layer protocols, and new interprocess communication mechanisms to be added as they become necessary. Experimental results are presented demonstrating that the multiple layers of abstraction used do not compromise efficiency.