interoperability of Java Application server tools and applications should(will?) be handled by an evolution of SOAP and XML Schema standards

Sorry, but SOAP is horrible if you're looking for any kind of efficiency. Serialising to ASCII on one end, parsing XML on the other, all over HTTP... eeeuuurrrggghh. It's fine for simplicity and getting something going without much work, but it's no replacement for RMI if you're all-Java already. And there's also the lack of security to worry about, too.

AND that fact that the SUN / Microsoft war limits Sun Java's transactional access to the Microsoft world via RMI or IIOP, (i.e. Denial of Sun Java access to the COM world) it is a perfect fit.

There are tons of Java-COM bridges out there, you know.

-- Yoz

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