An Overview of Remote Access Utilities

What is a remote access utility? That’s a good question to ask because many people have a preconceived notion of what this type of utility is without any basis in fact for their opinion. Many developers view remote access utilities as small applications that perform a single task. It just happens that the utility also performs this task across the network wire, making a remote access utility rather than a local utility. Other people view remote access utilities as some type of new application. Some developers go so far as to equate remote access utilities with Web Services. In short, we need a working definition of remote access utilities before we can even explore the genre in light of SOAP application ...

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