Our current goal in Project Bayanihan is to develop a flexible software framework that will allow us to explore these problems by making it possible to implement various solutions to them. At present we have a basic prototype using HORB [37], a distributed object library that provides remote objects capabilities in Java similar to those of Sun's RMI [38], but not requiring JDK 1.1. In this section, we provide a brief overview of this prototype framework. The details will be discussed in more depth in a separate paper [39].