Component-Based Distributed Computing
What is component-based distributed computing and why is it so important? This is an excellent question to answer before going much further. The first question to answer is “What is a component and what value do components offer to enterprise application developers?”
Quick Software Component Refresher
When we talk about a component, what are we referring to? We could say that an EJB is a component. We could also call a Java class a component. Trying to come up with a single definition of a component that everyone in the software community would agree on would be pretty tough. For years, software developers and architects all over the world have attempted to describe what a component is. In 1996, the European ...
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