How good is CORBA?

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Check out Jini. It's being proposed as an Apache project nowadays and
really shines when it comes to making distributed services work
together. Each application can be exposed as a Jini service whereby
other services only know the Java interface the service proxy
implements. How you implement the service itself (python?) or the
communication between the proxy and the service back-end (XML-RPC? RMI?
FTP? E-mail?) is completely up to you. Jini may look difficult at the
beginning, but distributed systems are inherently difficult. Jini just
makes them clear and forces you to deal with them in the easiest way
possible. In my opinion Jini is one of the best kept secrets of
distributed computing. Read up on the vision behind Jini to get an idea
of mother of all SOA technologies.

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