EZ-Bean is a SOAP-based tool to build distributed object environments. The SOAP (Simple Access Object Protocol) is a generalized messaging protocol, which is standardized by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). One of the uses provided by the SOAP is calling methods of remote objects, which is known as the RPC (remote procedure call).
There are a number of open-source tools for calling remote objects, for example WS-SOAP (formerly Apache SOAP) and Axis. The RPC can be programmed in Java language with these tools without knowledge in detail of the SOAP.
However, they may not be very convenient tools since they require quite more steps than those for building other kinds of distributed object environment such as CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) and RMI (Remote Method Invocation).
EZ-Bean was developed as a tool to solve this problem. It makes developments of distributed object environments easier. The simple process let by EZ-Bean is common for making programs to work with either WS-SOAP or Axis; thus, the portability is also improved.
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