Distributed observable/observer: a distributed real-time object-communication mechanism

We describe a software mechanism that simplifies the implementation of real time distributed object oriented applications. The distributed observable/observer mechanism extends the Observable/Observer concept of Java to a distributed environment encapsulating the communication protocol used by networking. The mechanism supports the distributed model/view controller (M/VC) paradigm, allowing view controllers to be attached to remote models by distributed structural object composition (DSOC). DSOC simplifies the development of distributed real time applications significantly since DSOC objects need only be interconnected to interact properly with each other. We illustrate the distributed observable/observer mechanism with DSOC by examples