Over time, it has become common practice to build applications as a set of components that are distributed across a network of machines and work together as part of one overall program. Traditionally, distributed application logic called for component-object technology such as the Microsoft® Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), the Object Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), or Sun's Remote Method Invocation (RMI). These technologies provided reliable, scalable architecture to meet the growing needs of applications.
