May 2002
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
8h 37m
English
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Chapter 1. Introduction
In the history of software development, new approaches frequently bring discarded ideas back into the mainstream of common practice. Each time an idea is revisited, prior successes and failures become invaluable aides in improving the concept and making its implementation better, or at least more usable. Now I’m not saying that we keep reinventing the wheel; rather, we keep going back and improving the wheel. And doing so can often be the catalyst for new ideas and new technologies that were not possible with the old wheel.
We’ve seen centralized computing with mainframes and their associated terminals come back disguised as application servers and thin clients. We’ve seen the concept of P-Code return in the form of interpreted languages like Java and Visual Basic. The universe of software development seems to expand and contract like, well, the cosmic Universe. If you wait around long enough, you may just be able to use the work you’re doing today at some time in the future.
The point is, really, that a good idea is a good idea, regardless of whether it’s a new idea. Timeliness is what matters most. So it goes for the world of distributed computing. The concept isn’t new, but it gets revisited constantly. Pervasive infrastructure and technologies like the Internet, web browsers, and their associated protocols have allowed us to go back and advance the state of distributed computing. The evolution’s latest craze is web services.
Web services are basically ...
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