Object oriented distributed software system with methodology for piggybacked reflective callbacks

In a distributed computing environment, an improved method for invocation of methods between remote objects, the method comprising:

• creating a first object having methods invoked by other objects, in a manner that appears as if the first object is being invoked in the other objects' address space;
• defining a forward invocation interface for the first object, which allows the methods of the first object to be called in a forward direction;
• defining a callback method on the first object, for invocation of a method of the first object in a reverse direction;
• creating a callback handler for handling invocations of the callback method;
• creating a second object having a reflective target that supports said forward invocation interface on the first object;
• receiving an invocation by the second object of the callback handler, said invocation including a reference to the reflective target;
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• at the first object, downcasting the reflective target so that said invocation by the second object processed through the reflective target as if it were a forward invocation.