the design of distributed client-server applications can be greatly reduced by a systematic, object-oriented breakdown of the functionality of all distributed applications, and later building the appropiate generalization paradigm. The main advance of this work is devising a whole framework that relies heavily on the assumption that a distributed application must communicate with other distributed applications (including self) by means of object streams. Object streams are directed flows made of objects from the same class, connecting two processes together, whether they be simple messages or an actual sequential flow of structured data. An object acts as emitter, and other as receiver. An analogy is established with signal processing, where these object streams correspond to signal flows, and the applications correspond to composition filters and mappings operating on those object streams. UML was applied as the overall design methodology, and a prototype inplementation was done entirely in the Java language.
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