.rem or .soap and SAO
I never understood the difference when setting up Server Activated Objects. Mike Woodring cleared it up for me:
If my memory serves me right, I think historically there
was a point
during the pre-release cycles when the
extensions had more meaning.
Something like this
IIRC:
* .soap would imply the default use SoapFormatter unless
otherwise
configured
* .bin would immply the
default use BinaryFormatter unless otherwise
configured
*
.rem was intended to only be used by the remoting
infrastructure for
doing things like instantiating
client activated types on remote
machines
But that was back in the day when the remoting config
files used
#-delimited fields instead of the more
readable xml format. Then at
some point they just
simplified things and demoted the extension's
importance
to strictly routing - and relying solely on
configuration
files to determine what you wanted to
use.