The publish/subscribe Internet
If Web services were just "CORBA with angle brackets," there
would be nothing revolutionary about the idea. Don't get me wrong,
remote procedure calls over the Internet -- using HTTP as a
universal transport and XML as a universal data representation --
beat the pants off CORBA, RMI (Remote Method Invocation), and DCOM
(Distributed Component Object Model). I never accomplished much
with those earlier technologies. Using XML-RPC and then SOAP, I've
cooked up simple but useful applications based on a witch's brew of
operating systems, application servers, and scripting languages. So
I'm the last guy to kick sand in the face of SOAP as an RPC
protocol. It's easy, universal, and productive. What's not to like?
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