14.3 Pushing the Envelope
EJB is a popular architecture for building web applications, but it
suffers from one significant liability: EJBs are accessible only
from Java applications. While it is possible to use some arcane CORBA
techniques in conjunction with RMI/IIOP to get to EJBs from non-Java
programs, it is rarely worth the trouble. However, EJBs often expose
functionality that you may want to make available to non-Java
clients.
The next chapter shows how to build web services that are accessible
by other, non-Java, systems, including Apple's
proprietary scripting language, AppleScript. This lesson will round
out your enterprise development skills on Mac OS X, and probably make
you all the rage at the water cooler as well.
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