It doesn't even have the concept of object identity, so it is even pre 
Corba.  I figure they have about 5 years to catch up with what Corba has 
today. Of course, I think Corba will continue to die the slow death.

-dain

danch wrote:
> Yup! 'Web Services' is just RPC running on an inefficient transport 
> protocol running on an inefficient link protocol, with no mechanism for 
> credential or transaction propogation, and 'best effort' levels of QOS. 
> Oh, by the way - Web Services also exposes a lot of the detail of the 
> protocol to the programmer, just to really piss off the people who 
> though writing then compiling IDL was a pain in the ass. Now, of course, 
> you get to choose between compiling or generating the IDL, which is so 
> chock full of fun little XML quirks as to be unreadable by normal humans 
> anyway.
> 
> Bah!
> 
> The more that things change, the more they get worse.
> 
> -danch
> 
> Bill Burke wrote:
> 
>> What I've been saying all along...
>>
>> "People have been building Web services under different names for 20 
>> or 30
>> years," he explains. "We've been building distributed systems for 
>> years out
>> using CORBA and RMI and all of that."
>>
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