May 2004
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
22h 31m
English
IN THIS CHAPTER
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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