(2004-04-20) Loughran Soa Local

Steve Loughran on the importance of the SOA model for interprocess integration within the local machine. The point I was trying to make in my earlier post is that if the loose coupling of SOA is beneficial across long distances, then it should work over short haul connections too. And since change in dependent code is a perennial problem of all programs that make API calls/object invocations/class inheritance of third party libraries, would a system design of ubiquitous SOA be a better way to build change-robust applications than the old (COM), or the new (subclass objects; system API looks like smalltalk object model). If it does, then great. If it doesn't, what does that forbode for the larger Web Services story?