Why CORBA, XmlRpc and XML, is it only a hype?
Yes, its a hype, but a nice one. CORBA allows inter operability between all major programming languages with type safety at compile time. XML allows dynamic modeling of real day problem domains with type safety at runtime and free versioning. The query language XPath allows to access XML in a powerful way. XmlRpc is a very simple protocol using HTTP, and allows easy integration of scripting languages.