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A networked computer system contains a number of host computers with servers that provide various functionality to distributed clients on the network. Clients are able to access runtime information about servers on remote host computers, even where the clients have only object references to the serv

A networked computer system contains a number of host computers with servers that provide various functionality to distributed clients on the network. Clients are able to access runtime information about servers on remote host computers, even where the clients have only object references to the servers through the presence of an embedded first class object within each server process. The first class object can be used to determine the process identification of the server process, counts of active objects and implementations in the server process, and to control tracing and logging functions provided by application programming interfaces utilized by the server.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A computer system for providing a distributed object interface to a server executing as a server process, the system comprising:a server including at least one distributed object as machine readable and executable structures, the server executing as a server process and not separat

[ We claim:] [1.] A computer system for providing a distributed object interface to a server executing as a server process, the system comprising:a server including at least one distributed object as machine readable and executable structures, the server executing as a server process and not separately existing as a first class object; andat least one first class object within the server including at least one machine executable structure adapted to execute as part of the server process and provide runtime information for the server process without interrupting execution of the server process, the first class object having an interface available to objects external to the server to enable manipulation of the server as a first class object.