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I'm not the only one who thinks that the various XML messaging services are reinventions of the wheel - Ted Neward has seen it all before as well. IMHO, this is one of those times in the software industry where everyone jumps on a new messaging bandwagon for no apparent reason. COM/DCOM - sure, that was MS specific. RMI? Sure, that's Java specific. CORBA, on the other hand, wasn't specific to anyone. To those who say that CORBA was/is too complicated - I say that you clearly haven't been working in XML long enough. Having done both now, I fail to see much difference....
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