&gt; The most critical thing is being able to use any services locally or remotely without knowing the difference or changing the code.<p>I thought we all agreed CORBA style location transparency was a bad idea?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture#Problems_and_criticism" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...</a>