Re: [OT] FW: Sun Headquarter Briefings: Developing Web Services

[Sam Ruby]

Peter Donald wrote:
>
> It is basically yet another attempt to bring around interoperability much
> like all the various distributed object/rpc protocols (DCOM, IIOP etc).
> However the claim is that this time it will work because messages are
plain
> text and that you use HTTP which is generally not firewalled off.

Personally, I'd ignore the firewall parts of the discussion.  That's a
distraction.

My take on it: CORBA and DCOM failed to achieve ubiquity because they tried
to do too much and were too vendor specific (both protocols shared these
aspects, but to different degrees).

- Sam Ruby


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