•Standardizing
distributed data
–Web
Services, supported on all platforms
–Custom
configure remote data dynamically
–XML:
Extensible Markup Language
–SOAP:
Simple Object Access Protocol
–WSDL:
Web Services Description Language
•Standardizing
distributed computing
–Grid
Services
–Custom
configure remote computing dynamically
–Build
your own remote computer, and discard
–Virtual
Data: new data sets on demand