Seamless and Secure Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Objects

John C. Hale (Ph.D. in Computer Science) Seamless and Secure Interoperation of Heterogeneous Distributed Objects (93 pp. - VI Chapters ) Directed by Professor Sujeet Shenoi (135 words) Distributed computing offers tremendous benefits that can be realized only through the seamless and secure interoperation of heterogeneous computing resources. The emergence of mission-critical Internet enterprises such as electronic commerce and telemedicine establishes high assurance distributed computing as an important area of research. The inherent complexity, concurrency and nondeterminism of distributed systems hinders their development. Furthermore, software components on distributed systems are typically heterogeneous, that is, constructed with different languages and systems. This situation makes interoperability extremely difficult to achieve. This research addresses the secure and seamless interoperation of heterogeneous distributed objects. The work is embodied by Mumbo, an object-oriented m..