On Jul 18, 2008, at 21:06 , Sebastian Sastre wrote:

> glad to hear that I'm not alone with this industrial crisis. The  
> only thing I
> can think of is using sessions. So when a session is closed or  
> expires the
> system notifies remote brokers telling the group of ids of objects  
> to be
> considered free for that session (and of course eventually claimed  
> if no other
> session is referencing them). Maybe you want/need a more general  
> approach? If we
> deny to give up to consistency I don't see lots of alternatives. I'm  
> starting to
> wonder what happen in real world to solve this problematic pattern- 
> problem...
> hhmmm...

For what its worth, there was a paper with the title "Programming with  
Live Distributed Objects" published at this year's ECOOP. Not sure,  
though, if/how they solve the problem.

Cheers,
Adrian