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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:56:58 -0000
David Hunter wrote,
> As am I. And it's exactly the combination of XML and HTTP
> which, to me, makes the browser unnecessary in many
> situations. If I can just put some kind of application on the
> client, whether it be written in Java, or Visual Basic, or
> C++, and have that application communicate with my servers via
> XML and HTTP, I get all of the benefits of using the Internet
> (or an Intranet or an Extranet, or any of the other names I
> can't keep up with), PLUS, I get all of the advantages of
> splitting my processing intelligently between server and
> client.
I'm having trouble seeing why XML over HTTP is preferable to
eg. CORBA or Java RMI (maybe tunneled through HTTP if there's
a need to traverse firewalls) for application specific comms.
How is application specific markup better than an application
specific binary wire protocol?
Cheers,
Miles
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