[sinuhe69]

Yes, it had became reality in many environments like .NET, Delphi and even Windows COM. The problem is however, they are only good in homogenous environments. Services on the other hand, could be easily consumed by all systems because they don’t need to know your system to work with and you don’t need to take care of the memory, threading and life cycle issues as you need to with objects.

In other words, it boils down to the objects vs interfaces, OO vs functional programming arguments in the last decades.

In reality, we still do both. But it’s clear by now that we don’t want remote objects anymore but remote services.