Re: [xml-dev] Categories of Web Service messages: data-oriented vs action-oriented

> >Then one day you wake up to find you have
> > _lots_ of pairs making RPC calls and trying to reorder of repurpose some
> > of them (or heaven forbid, their databases) without breaking something
> > else somewhere else is extremely difficult; there's too many
> > permutations and the network is suddenly not the sum of its parts
> > anymore. You're out of control of the code.

[Alaric B. Snell]

>But why is this any different to when local procedure calls between software
>modules are complicatedly inter-related?

It isn't. Thats why the software world is in a constant state of crisis :-)

Sean