RE: Myth of loose coupling

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: [email protected]; 'Assaf Arkin'; 'Mark Baker'; 'Ugo Corda';
> 'Champion, Mike'
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Myth of loose coupling
> 
> 
> 
> Hey, why don't we write a definition of loose-coupling and 
> coarse-grained
> into our arch doc, and talk about the benefits from a "best practice"
> application thereof?  I'm trying to figure out a way of 
> making this affect
> the wsa arch documents.

Definitely!  Loose coupling is a "principle" of the Web, according to most
pundits (not sure about the Webarch document).  It's also a supposed
advantage of SOAP web services over CORBA/DCOM (for reasons I'm a bit fuzzy
about ... I guess because you could move your service from Windows to Linux
or C++ to Python without breaking the client apps).