[mavelikara]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

> Given that the paper is from 1994, I'm wondering if there have been language changes that make this more achievable.

As the paper argues, it is not possible to make remote calls look like local ones. But it is trivially possible to make local calls look like remote ones! Use call-by-value parameter passing, and make all call asynchronous. The most successful solution I have heard of is Erlang's immutable-message-passing model.

It has been many years since I used it, but I think TOPLink Session and UnitOfWork interfaces threw exceptions signaling remote execution. This is like Erlang - you work with remote APIs; local execution is a special case.