Cisco Systems’ New Client/Server Messaging Protocol Announced

“This week Cisco Systems announced a new messaging protocol
intended to allow developers to integrate client/server
applications without the overhead of traditional protocols such as
SOAP. The new protocol, Etch, was introduced at a developer’s
conference covering the new 2.5 release of the Cisco Unified
Application Environment (CUAE). Etch is slated to go into beta
release this summer.

“For project managers starting new work, Etch may offer an
attractive alternative to SOAP, CORBA, EJB and other established
messaging protocols. Etch promises a distributed application
development without the cross-platform headaches that SOAP entails,
and with a degree of performance that makes it practical for
real-time applications that are chattier than traditional SOA
infrastructures are set up for…”

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