What is the difference between web service and remoting?

Question

I know web service and have some knowledge on remoting. Both concepts invoke methods on the client machine so where lies the difference ??

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Answer 1

.NET Remoting concept is a Microsoft/.NET specific interprocess communication technology.

The term "Web service" is very diffuse due to its hype. But I think the W3C definition is intended in most cases. It defines the use of WSDL as interface description and SOAP as message protocol.

According to Microsoft .NET Remoting: A Technical Overview on MSDN, Remoting uses either a binary or XML encoding. Whereas the XML encoding uses SOAP. But as far as I know, it does not adhere to the WS-I Basic Profile. Hence, it provides an extremely limited Web service interoperability.

Both concepts allow interprocess communication. If your application only uses .NET, then using .NET Remoting is a good choice.

However, if you plan to provide interoperability with other programming languages than you should use Web services.