Remoting Architecture
Establishing communication between two objects from two different domains or contexts, either on the same machine or on two different machines, is a common programming task. Traditionally, this requires in-depth knowledge of transport protocols, communication APIs, security mechanisms, and so on. The .NET Framework, however, makes it easy to develop such distributed applications by providing a number of services, utility classes, and tools. Figure 6.7 illustrates the process of general remoting.
Figure 6.7. Remoting model.
Under .NET remoting, a client simply creates an instance of the server class. The remoting layer creates ...
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