Nowadays, service composition is one of the major problems in the Cloud due to the exceptional growth in the number of services deployed by providers. Recently, atomic services have been found to be unable to deal with all client requirements. Traditional service composition gives the clients a...

This paper presents a comparison of several technologies for developing distributed applications. The specific technologies into consideration are: one focused on COM/DCOM/COM and Microsoft technologies, Internet Explorer and ActiveX - and the other focused on Netscape, CORBA, JAVA/J2EE solutions.