Distributed technologies CORBA, Enterprise JavaBeans, Web services: a comparative presentation

This paper presents a comparison of several technologies for developing distributed applications. The specific technologies into consideration are CORBA, Enterprise JavaBeans and Web Services. The comparison involves both qualitative factors, like data representation, transfer protocols and discovery services, as well as quantitative factors, which measure the performance of the models into consideration. In order to facilitate the comparison, an application has been developed that implements exactly the same functionality in all three technologies.