| | Invocation Chaining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Invocation chaining, or the combination of invocation batching with result chaining, is the key to allowing lightweight objects to be manipulated efficiently across heavyweight boundaries, whether between machines, between address spaces, or between user and kernel. |
 | | Invocation chaining can be compared to asynchronous messaging, in which method invocation results in an immediate send but not an immediate wait for the method's return value. |
 | | In practice, this limits invocation batching's usefulness to domains where return values are absent or are limited to success/failure indications, which usually means output tasks such as displaying text or graphics or adding entries to an event log. |
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