Abstract: The present invention facilitates the ability of computer software applications to become “highly available” or redundant by distributing persistent data in real-time across to a backup system, with the added benefit that it can be retrofitted into currently available systems without the need to re-write the available computer software applications. The present invention creates a communication between a primary and backup servers so that any persisted or state information that exists on the primary server is automatically distributed to the backup without any extra coding effort. This is accomplished by inheriting from basic objects such as Hashtables, Vectors and BlockingQueue. Such inheritance not only completely emulates their respective functionality on a local level, but also distributes modifications to the objects via a communication protocol such as Remote Method Invocation (RMI).