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Re: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented vs actio

• To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented vs action-oriented
• From: Alaric Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 16:38:22 +0000
• In-reply-to: <002a01c1ae5f$3eedc2e0$887ba8c0@mitchum>
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On Tuesday 05 February 2002 16:07, Bill de hÓra wrote:

> Hi Al,
>
> It's not different (but Sean's already said that). There are a couple of
> things (at least) that make it more of a pain though, 1) you mightn't
> own all the processes involved (a bit like not having source code in a
> local app maybe)

Indeed. As long as the interface is documented, it shouldn't be a problem. I 
don't have the source code to most of the libraries I use from Java!

> 2) the scale of a distributed system makes refactoring
> your way out of trouble tough compared to a local app (locally, you can
> often see what broke in front of your eyes).

That's just a matter of scale... the distributedness of it all doesn't make a 
bit of difference, except maybe increasing the scale of the system... 
non-distributed systems get bloated too :-)

>
> Bill de hÓra
>

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