distributed computing choices

[a***@yahoo.com]

When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

Here are the choices I know of, classifying by different programming
languages

HTTP (any??)

RPC (C, C++)
.NET (Microsoft)
COM+ (Microsoft)
RMI (Java)
CORBA (any)
EJB (Java)
SOAP (any ??)

MOM (any ??)

I guess HTTP is just the protocol, it should not belong to the
distributed computing choices? For example, we can deliver
SOAP using HTTP, or using JMS? EJB is delivered over HTTP?

Please comment and advise. thanks!!

[Alexei A. Frounze]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

This is OT for comp.lang.c.
Alex

[Mark McIntyre]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

This is offtopic in at least two, possibly three of the groups you
x-posted to. Try comp.programming.

[Keith Thompson]

Post by Mark McIntyre

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

This is offtopic in at least two, possibly three of the groups you
x-posted to. Try comp.programming.

It seems perfectly topical in comp.distributed. Followups redirected.

[Roedy Green]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

I have a bunch more listed at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/remotefileaccess.html

[tstrufe]

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When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?

the answer to the question will have to be: converging to an infinite amount

Post by a***@yahoo.com
Here are the choices I know of, classifying by different programming
languages
HTTP (any??)
RPC (C, C++)
.NET (Microsoft)
COM+ (Microsoft)
RMI (Java)
CORBA (any)
EJB (Java)
SOAP (any ??)
MOM (any ??)

You're mixing up things here. There are protocols (e.g. http),
communication models (e.g. remote procedure call/ remote method
invocation) and implementations (e.g. sunRPC/DCE-RPC, .Net, COM, CORBA,
JavaRMI etc.).
Have a look in <your-favourite-book-on-distributed-systems> (e.g.
Colouris Dollimore Kindberg), which will help... ;-)

HTH,

Thorsten

[steve]

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?
Here are the choices I know of, classifying by different programming
languages
HTTP (any??)
RPC (C, C++)
.NET (Microsoft)
COM+ (Microsoft)
RMI (Java)
CORBA (any)
EJB (Java)
SOAP (any ??)
MOM (any ??)
I guess HTTP is just the protocol, it should not belong to the
distributed computing choices? For example, we can deliver
SOAP using HTTP, or using JMS? EJB is delivered over HTTP?
Please comment and advise. thanks!!

check out apples web site, they have a development kit

[Scott Ellsworth]

Post by steve

Post by a***@yahoo.com
When an application needs to get information from another machine over
the network, how many distributed computing choices out there?
Here are the choices I know of, classifying by different programming
languages
HTTP (any??)
RPC (C, C++)
.NET (Microsoft)
COM+ (Microsoft)
RMI (Java)
CORBA (any)
EJB (Java)
SOAP (any ??)
MOM (any ??)
I guess HTTP is just the protocol, it should not belong to the
distributed computing choices? For example, we can deliver
SOAP using HTTP, or using JMS? EJB is delivered over HTTP?
Please comment and advise. thanks!!

check out apples web site, they have a development kit

Apple's kit goes under the name XGrid. It rides on BEEP and HTTP, IIRC.
There is a Java-based xgrid agent, so it appears that you do not need
native code to run jobs.

See <http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/features/xgrid.html> and
<http://developer.apple.com/hardware/hpc/xgrid_intro.html> and
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/13/xgrid.html>.

It looks pretty keen, and worked well for some test projects I did. It
rides on top of a number of other technologies, so it does not appear
that they are re-inventing the wheel.

Scott