Re: Java and Objective-C

FROM : Denis Bohm
DATE : Sun Jun 08 19:33:14 2008

On Jun 8, 2008, at  3:43 AM, Michael Ash wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Peter Duniho <<email_removed>> wrote:

>> So, when you write "true proxying of method invocations", what does 
>> that
>> mean, exactly?

>
> Distributed Objects is probably the best example in terms of
> real-world use of a technique which is difficult in stricter
> languages. Consider:
>
> Foo *obj = [connection rootProxy];
> [obj doSomethingWithArgument:arg];
>
> This transparently proxies the method invocation off to another
> machine. I seem to recall from the last time that this is possible to
> implement in C# but not Java, but I could be wrong.


BTW: There have been distributed object proxies in Java done in a 
similar way (using InvocationHandler).