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by hp 3223 days ago
It isn't better than those categorically. But it's definitely better than them for building a multi-process desktop.

"better" depends on what you are trying to do.

Of course CORBA and SOAP are considered old and horrible now, 15 years later. But currently-popular stuff is in many ways equally unsuited to coordination of local desktop processes, because it's not designed for that.