Wei Jiang wrote:
> You do not need to worry DCOM:
> http://www.internetwk.com/story/INW19991013S0004
> I do not think the new trick form it will get much
> support neither. Go with the industry!
Although I agree with you about EJB being the way to go, I think that you
misunderstand somewhat what is the purpose of MS with SOAP. At least the way I
understand it they intend this to be a communication mechanism to allow rich
clients (i.e. VB clients) to communicate with server components over the
Internet, and to allow easy integration of server-side applications over the
Internet.
Using DCOM for this is virtually impossible, but the same is more or less the
case with RMI/IIOP because of firewall problems, although in a controlled
extranet configuration one could configure the firewall to let through IIOP
packets. SOAP is a way to package a DCOM call as an XML message and thus
overcoming the firewall problem, while COM components running on an intranet
would still use DCOM to communicate.
A similar approach would IMHO be very useful also for the EJB/CORBA world.
-Per
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