Is Web services the reincarnation of CORBA?

Even during these early stages of the evangelism of Web services, customers have already begun to ask how this technology differs from CORBA. Isn’t it just another form of distributed computing? In this installment of the Web services architect, Dan Gisolfi offers a brief overview of the differences between SOAP, DCOM, and CORBA and suggests a value proposition for Web services within the distributed computing realm.