Re: distributed computing choices

Dear APNGSS@xxxxxxxxx,

apngss@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

the answer to the question will have to be: converging to an infinite amount

Here are the choices I know of, classifying by different programming
languages

HTTP (any??)

RPC (C, C++)
.NET (Microsoft)
COM+ (Microsoft)
RMI (Java)
CORBA (any)
EJB (Java)
SOAP (any ??)

MOM (any ??)

You're mixing up things here. There are protocols (e.g. http), communication models (e.g. remote procedure call/ remote method invocation) and implementations (e.g. sunRPC/DCE-RPC, .Net, COM, CORBA, JavaRMI etc.).
Have a look in <your-favourite-book-on-distributed-systems> (e.g. Colouris Dollimore Kindberg), which will help... ;-)

HTH,

Thorsten

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