The idea of distributed application development is not new. Distributed technologies such as Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) have existed for years. However, none of these technologies is an unambiguous industry standard. That is where standards based services step in. A service exposes some functionality as an API (Application Programming Interface) that the clients can consume. The data transfer between the client and the service usually happens in a format known to both the parties (such ...
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