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

Both Remoting and Web Services are ways of communication between applications.

Remoting - In remoting, the applications involved in the communication process may be located on the same computer, different computers in a same or different network. In remoting, both applications know about each other. A proxy of an application object is created on the other application.

Web Services - Communication between applications using web services is platform independent and programming independent. The application that consumes the web service, simply accesses it, without needing to know how this web service has actually been implemented & created.