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Closing Words of Chapter Three

I just finished the third chapter of my next book. The final paragraph is

Location transparency is a Siren as it lures people into making bad software design decisions. If you want to improve your application's scalability and robustness, you should not think about objects as the boundaries of remote communication. At the wire, there is only a message and at the other end there is just some piece of software which reads the message and acts on it. The mapping to objects exists merely to increase convenience for developers. As an application architect you should instead think about the exchange of messages.
posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:30 AM

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