October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 22m
English
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Summary
This chapter outlined the .NET remoting technology and hopefully gave you an appreciation for how it differs from traditional Web Services, which you've studied throughout this book. For example, you learned about channels, formatters, and configuration files, among other things. Not once did we mention WSDL or UDDI, or the other .NET Framework Class Library attributes and objects that you've examined.
.NET remoting differs from .NET XML Web Services in that .NET remoting is .NET's answer to DCOM. Although for the near future we'll likely see .NET remoting used between .NET systems, the remoting architecture is extensible to other platforms. The goal of remoting is still to couple remote objects rather than publish consumable services. ...