This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C119FB.34283320 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > The more interesting conversation, I think, is to take the overall > goal of Web Services, which I take to be roughly "Let's apply the > Web's lessons of loose coupling in document handling to inter-process > communication/remote method invocation", and talk about a) whether and > b) under what circumstances this is a good idea. > Loose coupling and remote method invocation sound like they are opposites. But I suppose anything to help loosen the coupling in an RMI/RPC situation will help. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C119FB.34283320 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">RE: Web Services: Its So Crazy, It Just Might Not Work > The more interesting conversation, I think, is to take the overall
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> goal of Web Services, which I take to be roughly "Let's apply the
> Web's lessons of loose coupling in document handling to inter-process
> communication/remote method invocation", and talk about a) whether and
> b) under what circumstances this is a good idea.
>
Loose coupling and remote method invocation sound like they are opposites.
But I suppose anything to help loosen the coupling in an RMI/RPC situation will help.