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Abstract

Data structures, methods and devices for reducing computing overhead associated with dispatching a distributed object invocation and improving the flexibility of the dispatch framework in a distributed client/server based computing system are disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, a request received on an end point in a transport layer is dispatched from the transport layer to a subcontract in a subcontract layer where the request is partially unmarshaled and dispatched from the subcontract to a skeleton function in a skeleton layer where a servant is invoked. In another aspect of the invention a method for initializing a subcontract which includes a skeleton dispatch function arranged to dispatch a received request to an appropriate skeleton after the subcontract has unmarshaled at least a portion of the received request involves registering the subcontract with at least one cluster end point registry, creating a subcontract meta object associated with the subcontract, and storing the subcontract meta object in a subcontract registry.

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