context aware execution

[Michael Torrie]

On 12/19/2012 09:51 AM, Bart Thate wrote:
> Think of sending JSON over the wire, reconstruct an object with it and then
> let the object figure out what it can and cannot do in this external
> environment.

Probably the better way to do it is to formally define an API that lets
an object discover things about its environment and then broker calls
through it.  This is sort of what COM does on windows, or Corba.