The widespread adoption of distributed computing has been prognosticated for
many years. Finally, a critical mass has been created of both enabling and
demand trends that will ultimately realize the promised wave of distributed
computing applications. This wave of distributed computing will have a
profound impact on businesses and government agencies in many ways - and one
area that will be particularly affected is wide-area networks (WAN).
SOA-Enabling Trends
Web services-based service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolved form of
distributed computing that can trace its roots to earlier architectures such
as CORBA and JINI. However, XML (the key protocol for Web services) has a
level of sophistication and widespread acceptance that CORBA and JINI never
achieved. Al... (more)