Web service technology has emerged as a popular way for building distributed applications involving distributed databases. It is the next generation technology in the long journey from functions to objects to components to services. Today’s comparing SOAP as a wire protocol to the commonly used distributed object technologies and their wire protocols in use. SOAP makes use of openly available technologies that, when combined, specify a wire protocol. This protocol can be used to facilitate highly and ultra-distributed architecture. SOAP commonly uses the HTTP protocol to transport XML-encoded serialized method argument data from system to system. This serialized argument data is used on the remote end to execute the client’s method call on that system, rather than the client’s local system. This case study provides a more details comparison of the SOAP and Distributed objects.
A flexible and distributed architecture for adaptive end-to-end QoS provisioning in next-generation networks
