Summary
HTTP and HTML are the principal protocol and language, respectively, in use on the Internet today. They form the backbone of a Web applications architecture.
Web applications can be augmented with distributed objects that enable objects on the client to communicate directly with objects on the server, without using HTTP or going through the Web server.
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is a Java-based distributed object infrastructure that can be delivered to new clients in the form of applets.
DCOM is COM on a longer wire. DCOM is Microsoft's infrastructure for distributing objects on different machines.
XML, like HTML, is an SGML-based language and can be used for expressing content in Web pages.
XML documents have many other uses, including ...
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