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Prof. Fox,

Here's the review that you had asked for. 

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Rajeev
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Paper Number: C525huang

Date: Oct 9, 2001

Paper Title: Object-oriented Distributed Computing Based on Remote Class
Reference

Authors: Huang, Walker and Rana

Referee: Rajeev Raje

Address: Department of Computer and Information Science, IUPUI, 723 W.
Michigan Street, SL 280H, Indianapolis, IN 46202.

Referee Recommendations: Accept provided suggested changes are made.

Comments for the Authors and Editor:

This a nicely written paper with a clear problem definition and a proposed
solution. However, the following issues need to be addressed to make the paper
more strong:

The motivation for not having the remote interfaces (or proxies) on client's 
machine are not very convincing. It would have been better if a comparative 
study was made between the author's approach and other alternatives, such as 
dynamic invocation (e.g., allowed by CORBA). Various issues such as space, 
consistency, and performance need to be looked into for such a comparison.

The idea of using wrapper is not really new, although, it has been used in
different ways than what the paper is proposing. An interesting issue to look
into would be the amount of effort needed to create these wrappers for more
complex problems than the ones described in the paper.

Finally, more details are needed (e.g., performance comparison between the 
standalone and the distributed case) that can validate the claims the authors
are making in the conclusion.
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