Chapter 21. Distributed Applications with CORBA, RMI, and DCOM
For years, software developers have struggled to write distributed applications that take advantage of computing resources independent of their physical location in a network. Unlike client-server applications connecting a single server and a single client, truly distributed applications may utilize dozens of servers spread across a network to deliver a business computing function to a client desktop. Traditionally, writing distributed applications in a heterogeneous environment meant hand coding all the required inter-process communications interfaces, server start up routines, naming services, and other required support facilities. Couple these difficulties with the object-oriented ...
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