Complete state of a distributed application can be saved in a Database (Oracle) in addition to in XML |
Therefore, the previous sessions can be recovered from database in addition to XML document |
Gateway has a simple fault-tolerance model : when either proxy or the real object is down, the system will recover from the database |
An application consisting of components running at different machines can be defined in XML and started automatically. |
Instead of manually starting, Gateway servers also can be started through URL easily |