1. A method of automatically generating client/server applications from an application written to execute on a single processing system and having program classes and programmed methods associated with the objects, the method comprising the steps of: identifying each program class in the application; determining the relationships between programmed methods in the identified classes; weighting the relationships between the programmed methods in the identified classes based on the interaction between the programmed methods in the identified classes; weighting each identified class in the application based on the computing resources required by the identified class; and partitioning the identified classes into client classes and server classes based on the weighted relationships between the programmed methods in the program classes, the weight associated with each program class and a computing topology associated with a target client processing system.