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Sunday Jul 27, 2003

The discredited topology.

Jason Carreira: Scaling doesn't have anything to do with whether your objects are remote. How often do you really have one web request cross JVM boundaries? The whole Servlet-tier and Business Object tier topography has been pretty well discredited. It doesn't scale to have to make remote calls.