
So, almost all network hardware and software (routers, firewalls, end- user computers, servers.) is ready to manage this protocol. Protocols are what languages are for people, if two of more people know one language, they can share information.īut the birth of Arpanet and the grow of Internet made this protocol quite popular: it is used to receive web pages, images, files, commercial data and all the stuff you can imagine from servers that are placed all around this world. Lots of people can learn it, not just programmers, create an implementation, write a XML document with a text editor, and lot of libraries and other software will help them to share their documents, or translate it to HTML or PDF beautiful reports.

The power of XML is that is an international standard, and that can be easily used by people and computers. Well, XML seems to be only tags and random data you put in a file.Īnd XML is really that. If big companies acts in that way, medium and small companies will do the same.

Companies trust in the support of big hardware and software companies. So, companies need standars to share information.

Gambas Documentation - Network Programming.
