DeXteR - An Extensible Framework for Declarative Parameter Passing in Distributed Object Systems

In modern distributed object systems, reference parameters are passed to a remote method based on their runtime type. The authors argue that such type-based parameter passing is limiting with respect to expressiveness, readability, and maintainability, and that parameter passing semantics should be decoupled from parameter types. They present declarative parameter passing, an approach that fully decouples parameter passing semantics from parameter types in distributed object systems. In addition, they describe DeXteR, an extensible framework for transforming a type-based remote parameter passing model to a declaration-based model transparently.