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Abstract

A system and method are disclosed, according to which, the responsiveness of client/server-based distributed web applications operating in an object-oriented environment may be improved by caching read only commands. In an exemplary embodiment, the system and method are implemented by defining a class of objects (i.e. cacheable commands), along with associated methods and properties. Among the new methods are methods adapted to designate a cache, enter a command into a cache, search a cache for a specific command, etc. When the client requires a command, the server responding to the request first seeks the command in its local cache. If the command is not found locally, and sharing is enabled, the command is sought in the cache of a peer server. If the command is not cached, the server prepares the metadata for caching the command, executes the command and conveys the resulting HTML code to the requesting client, and caches the command for subsequent requests.

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