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> 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.
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.
MB
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Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.
http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com
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