A messaging framework that uses web services to enable interoperability between client and server applications. The data exchanging relies on SOAP 1.2 Message Transmission Optimized Mechanism (MTOM) protocol and occurs as file streaming over the web.
JFTP4I is a Java FTP Framework that dinamically calls an user implemented class on each client request. When the user makes a request to a file, the framework automatically uses the configuration XMLs to start an event to deal with the data requested.
A mobile agent framework. Instead of relying on protocols across the wire, send an agent to the server to execute.
An example is encryption: send an agent to retrieve data, but let it do the encryption. Client side encryption on the server!