I have some questions pertaining to distributed programming. They are
broken up as follows:

Explain in brief the architecture of the .Net Remoting Framework. What
is the role of a message sink? In what way is the framework
extensible?

Explain in detail the process one would follow in constructing an RMI
based distributed chat application. How would this process change if
one were to use
CORBA or COM rather than RMI? Comment briefly on the role of the
interface in distributed systems technologies.

What is loose coupling and how is it achieved in distributed systems 
technologies? 

I request only answers and not links to answers.
First paragraph: 25%
Second paragraph: 60%
Third paragraph: 15%

Where the percentage roughly corresponds to the overall length of the answer!

Thanks,
Sean

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Clarification of Question by scriv-ga on 13 May 2004 19:52 PDT

I would appreciate if things could be explained in a simplistic way
with the assumption of just a basic prior knowledge.

Thanks.