Chapter 29. .NET Remoting and Delphi

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Remoting is the process through which applications communicate across certain boundaries. The simplest form of boundary is a process, whereas a more complex one (and more common) is a network.

COM, DCOM, CORBA are all remoting technologies that, despite the different names and the incompatibles, work following a similar pattern: A client packages the name and parameters of a request, sends it over the boundary to a predefined location, and waits for a response.

Remoting technologies allow you to enter the world of “distributed systems” ...

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