What is about Web services that is driving its popularity and adoption ? First, and perhaps most important, Web services are based on widely accepted industry standards (many of which are XML-based). In this way, the Web services model is fundamentally different from previous distributed computing models such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) standard and Microsoft’s Compound Object Model (COM) programming, which each essentially required that users on both ends of a distributed system run the same programs. Web services, in contrast, have no such requirements and are .
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