23.10. .NET Remoting
The .NET framework provides a distributed computing technology called .NET remoting that allows a program to invoke methods of objects located on other computers over a network, rather than communicate with streams of bytes (as demonstrated earlier in this chapter). .NET remoting is similar in concept to RMI (remote method invocation) in Java and RPC (remote procedure call) in procedural programming languages. .NET remoting is also similar to Web services (Chapter 22) with a few key differences. With Web services, a client application communicates with a Web service that is hosted by a Web server. The client and the Web service can be written in any language, as long as they can transmit messages in SOAP. With .NET remoting, ...
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