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  • Method and apparatus for allowing generic stubs to marshal and unmarshal data in object reference specific data formats
    Patent number: 5737607
    Abstract: The invention provides solutions to the problems which are encountered by object oriented systems designers when attempting to implement schemes for object invocation and for argument passing in distributed systems wherein the arguments may be objects, and wherein the system supports a multiplicity of ORB-specific data formats, in ways which do not lock the object oriented base system into methods which may be difficult to change at a later time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Graham Hamilton, Swee Boon Lim, Peter B. Kessler, Jeffrey D. Nisewanger, Sanjay R. Radia