Hi,

The new NET technology is just MS way to push their product. The problem with COM and DCOM is that they are not suitable for Internet so MS has to come out with something to extend the Win platform. SOAP is just an protocol to access you COM object in the web server. Hope this help.

Regards,
Kueh.


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