Distributed Infrastructure Support for Electronic Commerce Applications

I Motivation and Background.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Distributed Computing Infrastructures.- II Concepts.- 3. Open Design and Language Transparency.- 4. Extending Interface Definition Languages.- 5. Multithreaded Servers.- III Validation and Case Studies.- 6. Sofiware Leasing on the Internet.- 7. The RBMO System.- 8. Map-on-the-Move.- 9. Summary.