Comparing CORBA, RMI, SOAP

[Sudhakar Krishnamurthy]

Can anyone shed some light on how these architectures fare in comparison to each other. Or is their a link that someone can share perhaps.

Regards,
-Krish

[Pat Farrell]

how do you want to compare and contrast them?

Corba is a lot like RMI, but is designed to be cross language and cross platform. Since I tend to use Java, I dislike all the extra "stuff" that Corba brings. But if you want to do C++ to Java from an Intel PC to a Itanium Server, Corba is your solution.

SOAP is just XML, both Corba and RMI are about remote execution of procedures (functions). Different problem space.

[Marc Wentink]

CORBA uses IIOP which is more efficient in transfering data then Webservices using SOAP which send there data in text based XML.