Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling failover are provided. An embodiment of a method for enabling failover comprises determining that an attempt to communicate with a first object having a first address has failed, the first object being a part of a first application hosted by a first application-server, requesting a backup address associated with a duplicate application that is substantially a copy of the first application, the duplicate application comprising a duplicate object that is substantially a copy of the first object, receiving the backup address, and using a portion of the first address and a portion of the backup address to construct a failover address for the duplicate object.