Method, system and computer program product are provided for facilitating
transport of program code between computer processes in an
object-oriented computing environment. An object is provided which
includes a hashtable having at least one set of elements integrated
therein. One element of the at least one set of elements of the hashtable
is program code. The program code is logic which employs as data input
the hashtable itself. The object can be serialized at a sender computer
process and transported to a receiver computer process, where the
serialized data object is received and deserialized to retrieve the
hashtable. The receiver computer process can add relevant data to the
hashtable prior to invoking program code within the hashtable using as
data input thereto only the hashtable. A technique for merging multiple
hashtables from different computer processes into a common hashtable is
also provided.