Accessing a Session Bean from CORBA and RMI Clients
Different technologies exist today that provide distributed computing for enterprise applications. Of them, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), and the Component Object Model/Distributed Component Model (COM/DCOM) are frequently used in applications. EJB is not a distributed computing technology but a distributed computing architecture. The underlying distributed computing technology that EJB 2.0 specifies is RMI over IIOP. Why is there a combination of two technologies instead of just one? To understand the reason behind this, you need to see how distributed computing technologies have evolved in Java.
The first support for writing distributed applications was ...
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