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A server acts as an interface between services and either
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a client or another server
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A CORBA Object Broker is just a server
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Servers implement one or more protocols such as IIOP COM/RMI's specialized protocol, HTTP .....
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Users do not write servers but rather software implementing services
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This software used to be "CGI Scripts often in PERL"
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Now it is better in Java using "Servlet" mechanism
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One needs to access services and this is where "distributed object technology" comes in. This provides mechanisms to discover, access and invoke distributed services
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This is typically NOT HPCC as can afford highish latency for initial startup so should use technologies like Jini from Sun
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