Microsoft's webservices are XML over HTTP.
Java webservices are for all I can tell RMI. There is only lip service paid to the uddi standard. Sun is pushing it's own vision of the future.
Anyway the point is that if SOAP and UDDI are what wins Microsoft and IBM will own that market. MS more than likely taking the lower - medium end,IBM taking the upper market and I image linux taking the very low end.
More than likely what we see today but with Java losing market share rather than gaining it.
As opposed to the US where you cant walk down the street for a loaf of bread without worrying about being gunned down by a gangsta with a minigun?
Farmers, pig shooters and target shooters can get by just fine with the weapons that are legal here.
Fortunately America doesnt have the same problem,
Americans killed so many of your natives there arent enough left to make a fuss, and the survivors are kept out of harms way in reservations.
Here is a good definition of.NET the basis of it I found on a messageboard somewhere but I've modified it a bit:
What is.NET? In a nutshell, it is an architecture for allowing multiple languages to create executables which work on any platform (like Java, though with more multi-language emphasis). It is built with internet protocols as a foundation for intercommunication (SOAP is simply a technology to allow objects to be called over HTTP using XML as a serialization protocol).
The framework includes standards for code packaging and distribution as well as security, something made easier by the completely self-describing nature of MSIL (Microsoft's analog to Java bytecodes(stand for Intermediate language)).
Practically on windows this works much the same as activeX components. except instead of being registered.dll's they are code compiled into the IL with and XML wrapper exposing their methods/properties.
Technologies such as ASP+ and WinForms are BUILT on.NET technologies, but are NOT.NET, something which is often confused in the Microsoft documentation.
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I also believe that most of what you've said is right.
But even so there is no way that America will ever make such a dramatic change to the way it does business.
There's just too much inertia behind the current system for any serious changes in direction to take place.
Microsoft's webservices are XML over HTTP. Java webservices are for all I can tell RMI. There is only lip service paid to the uddi standard. Sun is pushing it's own vision of the future. Anyway the point is that if SOAP and UDDI are what wins Microsoft and IBM will own that market. MS more than likely taking the lower - medium end,IBM taking the upper market and I image linux taking the very low end. More than likely what we see today but with Java losing market share rather than gaining it.
As opposed to the US where you cant walk down the street for a loaf of bread without worrying about being gunned down by a gangsta with a minigun? Farmers, pig shooters and target shooters can get by just fine with the weapons that are legal here.
I agree, they should make all illicit drugs free and ban resuscitation of users who OD. Natural Selection will do the rest.
Fortunately America doesnt have the same problem, Americans killed so many of your natives there arent enough left to make a fuss, and the survivors are kept out of harms way in reservations.
This reminds me of an interesting article by Vernor Vinge (sci fi writer and Com Sci Prof?) about the possibility of creating superhuman intelligence.
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Its a thought provoking article if you have the time to read it
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-
Havent you heard of convergance?
4-5 years ago applets were a strength.
Over the last 5 years there has been enormous improvements in every aspect of Internet development.
Likewise Java has also evolved and moved on.
Here is a good definition of .NET the basis of it I found on a messageboard somewhere but I've modified it a bit:
What is .NET? In a nutshell, it is an architecture for allowing multiple languages to create executables which work on any platform (like Java, though with more multi-language emphasis). It is built with internet protocols as a foundation for intercommunication (SOAP is simply a technology to allow objects to be called over HTTP using XML as a serialization protocol).
The framework includes standards for code packaging and distribution as well as security, something made easier by the completely self-describing nature of MSIL (Microsoft's analog to Java bytecodes(stand for Intermediate language)).
Practically on windows this works much the same as activeX components. except instead of being registered.dll's they are code compiled into the IL with and XML wrapper exposing their methods/properties.
Technologies such as ASP+ and WinForms are BUILT on .NET technologies, but are NOT .NET, something which is often confused in the Microsoft documentation.