Reinventing the Wheel? CORBA vs. Web Services

This paper provides three contributions to the study of Web services and the role played by the emerging XML/SOAP standards as well as existing, integration technologies such as CORBA. First, we evaluate the two technologies comparing and contrasting the features offered by each. Second, we provide our analysis on the circumstances in which these technologies should be used. We argue that most often these technologies need to coexist. Finally, we derive examples from the telecommunications' Intelligent Networking domain to support our conclusions.