Nicolas Lehuen's Weblog

A few weeks ago I compared SOAP to CORBA. Well, be scared, because looking at the history of CORBA gives a lot of information about what issues SOAP might encounter. Granted, things may be a little bit more rosy with SOAP, and the use of HTTP, URLs and XML solved a lot of technical problems, but the part about the political reasons of the CORBA mess still apply today.

One thing that surprised me while reading the article is that the rise and fall of CORBA really took place during the late nineties, when I started my career. As a rookie I thought CORBA was an established and proven technology. How naive I was .