System and method for interactive communication between objects in a distributed computing environment

A system and method enables interactive communication between a host object-oriented component running on client computer and a remote object-oriented component running on a remote computer in a distributed computing environment. The host object-oriented component has an object embedded therein. The embedded object is associated with an object that is not resident on the client computer. In response to invoking the embedded object at the client computer, a remote instance of the embedded object is created at the remote computer in the form of the remote object-oriented component. An interface also is dynamically created between the remote object-oriented component and the client computer to facilitate communication of both programmatic data and user interface data therebetween. As a result, the remote object may be manipulated as if it were local on the client computer.