January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 5m
English
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An Overview of Web Services
Throughout the history of software development, programmers have looked for ways to reuse code. Reusing code can substantially reduce the amount of time and effort that it takes to develop a particular software solution. The desire to reuse code has given rise to many programming concepts and gave birth to the idea of object-oriented programming.
Object-oriented programming allows programmers to develop code that others can use and also provides a means for using code that has already been developed. COM (Component Object Model), DCOM (Distributed Component Object Model), CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture), and RMI (Remote Method Invocation) are all models that can be used to develop and use object-oriented ...