what are the different technologies available for communication among software components distributed across networked computers?

I want to know what are the different technologies available for communication among software components distributed across networked computers? And which 开发者_JAVA百科is the recent and popular one.

It depends on the kind of your software (embedded or enterprise) and on the domain you're working on.

I would consider the following technologies:

• SOAP
• CORBA
• Protobuf (or Thrift) over socket