MCAD/MCSD Training Guide (70-320): Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C#™ .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework

Distributed Applications

As described in the previous sections, processes as well as application domains provide a close, protected environment. As a result, objects in a process or an application domain cannot talk directly to objects in another process or another application domain.

However, in the increasingly connected world, enterprises and users demand distributed applications. Distributed applications allow objects to talk across process boundaries. Often, distributed applications also meet the following objectives:

• Establish communication between objects that run in different application domains and processes, whether on the same computer or across the Internet.

• Enable enterprise application integration by establishing communication between ...