ABSTRACT
It has become abundantly clear in this era of electronic commerce that monolithic solutions and islands of corporate information are no longer sufficient to maintain the enterprise in the new millennium. Instead of devoted client/server applications, the information system’s focus has become one of managing and assembling the interactions of the distributed objects and components that comprise the modern environment. Further complexity is added to this shift in the application development paradigm by the competing and variously exclusive distributed computing solutions available: CORBA, RMI, MTS/COM, and the generic application server.
