author: Michel Dagenais
copyright: Michel Dagenais, GNU General Public License, 1998
date: 18 January 1998
keyword: distributed
keyword: network objects
keyword: remote method invocation
keyword: rmi
keyword: wide audience

# Network Objects

## Abstract

Network objects offer transparent remote method invocation on objects. Network objects are simpler to use than remote procedure calls because objects store the remote connection information, and the runtime handles automatically the external data representation used to exchange parameters during remote calls.

netobj
  The network objects library.
netobjd
  The network object daemon used to facilitate the exchange of network objects between remote processes.
stubgen
  The stub generator used by netobj to derive network objects types from used defined types.