Comment by Ma8ee

You are of course right, but I couldn’t help laughing. I’ve long tried to say this: the reason for the relatively success of SOA is mostly that it makes it harder to cheat and reach over into other modules to grab whatever you need. That it is another team responsible also make it less likely that we rely on implementation details of the other modules.

But the reason why I laughed is that for almost every bug reported, it starts with a minor war about whose service that is really responsible, and then how was this contract really defined again? Oh, so the only specification is this example file you sent us two years ago? Aha, so the public order number isn’t what is called order_number, we should obviously have used the CustONr. Et c...