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 ====== Distributed Objects for Real ======
-Over the past year, a number of researchers at the Software Languages Lab have been involved in experiments designed to uncover new programming abstractions to facilitate the development of mobile RFID-enabled applications.
+Over the past year, a number of researchers at the Software Languages Lab have been involved in experiments designed to uncover new programming abstractions to facilitate the development of mobile RFID-enabled applications.  During these experiments, we have approached the development of such applications from two opposing perspectives, which are briefly described below.
-During these experiments, we have approached the development of such applications from two opposing perspectives, which are briefly described below.
 == Volatile Data Clouds ==
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 == Tags Objects ==
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+The tag objects model represents RFID tags as full-blown objects, which introduces a natural mechanism to deal with **mutable tag data**.  More information as well as videos of our experiments can be found on a [[research:rfid|dedicated page]].
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 While the //volatile data clouds// model considers RFID tags as containers of data which is to be filtered and interpreted by the application, the //tag objects// model interprets them to be full-blown objects.  Applications can interact with these objects and e.g. invoke methods on them.  In this case, the tag contains a marshalled object representation which is implicitly unmarshalled to provide a live object which applications can interact with.