Referencing Model Summary

• Forward referencing
  • default mechanisms for all W3Objects
  • achieves referential integrity
  • provides migration transparency
  • chain-shortcutting reduces points of failure
• Name-servers
  • used to provide name to object bindings
  • used to provide alternative paths to an object
• Callback
  • used in conjunction with name-servers to eliminate common paths
  • used with references to minimise invocation overhead