> Incredibly complicated stuff, failed all the time. You can see a good example of this in Java RMI, which was still shipping in Java until recently Agreed. Ja

> Incredibly complicated stuff, failed all the time. You can see a good example of this in Java RMI, which was still shipping in Java until recently Agreed. Java EJBs,specifically distributed session beans, were the incumbent, along with DCOM objects on the Windows side. Also, in my experience, I don’t ever recall anyone using RMI directly. EJBs were used much more frequently than direct RMI. However, IIRC distributed session beans used RMI under the hood. We also did plain XML over HTTP using Internet Explorer’s XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript. Not SOAP, just custom xml. But that was client side...