Component Interoperability

When you develop a distributed application, you want the components to be as independent as possible. A component developer shouldn’t be concerned about the location of other components or any details of their implementation. EJB 2.0 helps achieve this goal by specifying an interoperability protocol based on CORBA/IIOP. The goal is to allow session and entity beans developed and deployed into one vendor’s EJB container to be accessible to other applications running in a different vendor’s J2EE application server. These applications can include other EJBs, servlets, JSPs, and standalone applications. By basing the interoperability requirement on CORBA, access from CORBA clients written in languages such as C++ or COBOL ...

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