Access transparency
Access transparency is a term from software technology. Particularly in the area of distributed systems , access transparency describes the desired property of software components that methods or arguments of a component are always accessed in the same way, regardless of whether they are local (on the same computer) or remotely (on a network that can be reached via a network Calculator). In general, access to file systems is transparent, so that the same functions can be used to access local file systems of different types of data storage media and network file systems .
Examples of middleware architectures that support access transparency are CORBA (for various programming languages) and RMI (for Java ).