This position paper describes an adaptable framework called
    Advice. It can be used as middle-ware to implement many approaches
    for distributed object management. It provides basic low-level
    mechanisms for flexible building of both data-oriented and
    process-oriented distributed applications. This mechanisms include
    facilities for transparently moving and replicating the memory
    used by objects. Low-level policy and sharing semantics are always
    kept under user control and can be changed dynamically.  Object
    systems implementing high-level object mobility, migration,
    replication and load-balancing can benefit from it.  The framework
    scalability is guaranteed and only very minimal operating system
    support is needed.