Fragmented object

It is a novel design principle extending the traditional concept of stub based distribution.

Fragmented objects may act like a RPC-based infrastructure or a (caching) smart proxy as well.

Full transparency is gained by the following characteristics of fragmented objects.

For instance, this allows to hide real-time protocols (e.g., RTP for media streaming) behind a standard CORBA interface.

A flexible internal partitioning is achieved providing transparent fault-tolerant replications as well.