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It's an RPC. They're half a century old. Java had RMI within a year of existence. [0]

> In remote procedure call systems, client-side stub code must be generated and linked into a client before a remote procedure call can be done. This code may be either statically linked into the client or linked in at run-time via dynamic linking with libraries available locally or over a network file system. In either the case of static or dynamic linking, the specific code to handle an RPC must be available to the client machine in compiled form... Dynamic stub loading is used only when code for a needed stub is not already available. The argument and return types specified in the remote interfaces are made available using the same mechanism. Loading arbitrary classes into clients or servers presents a potential security problem;

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/6.824-2009/papers/waldo-r...