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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Baker" <distobj@a...> > > Karl Waclawek wrote: > > > What is it that prevented CORBA from gaining more ground in the market? > > With CORBA, given an identifier, you need to know what it identifies > *before* you use it, i.e. you need to know it's a stock quote to know to > invoke getQuote(). With the Web, given an identifier, you find out what > it as *after* you invoke GET on it. Although this is not quite true - given that CORBA has DII - I think I understand what you want to say: With GET you always get some (more or less) meaningful result, and it is immediately accessible to human interpretation. > The coordination costs with the latter are *dramatically* lower than > with the former. And between untrusted parties, cheap coordination is > everything. > > CORBA didn't succeed over the Internet because it wasn't designed to. My original question was more about CORBA vs. web services/applications, not the web in general, but you brought up a good point. Karl
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