An Extension of MS Windows to Support the Development of Distributed Object-Oriented Applications

Abstract

MS Windows is the most widely used operating environment with graphics user interface for personal computers. However, in MS Windows there exists no appropriate, high-level support for developing distributed windows applications. In this paper we propose an expansion to the MS Windows environment to support the development of distributed windows applications across heterogeneous platforms. The extended version of MS Windows (we call it EMS Windows) adopts Client/Serve architecture with the features of network transparency and independent execution-platform applications. In addition, a class library supporting the development of distributed, object-oriented windows applications is also built into EMS Windows. Based on EMS Windows, we found that developing a distributed windows application is very fast and efficient.