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This discussion is interesting and is broadening my understanding, which I do appreciate.

However I do not understand how a front-end can be expected to ignore the capabilities and requirements of the back-end? I am missing a piece of that puzzle. If the front-end displays today's temperature in London then connecting it to a back-end of shipping dates is not going to work. To my thinking, that front-end has to establish that it desires to know the temperature in London and the back-end has to furnish that information for the process to be useful.

My own guess would be that for success, the back-end has to establish the rules of the exchange, or the front-end must own and dictate the back-end?

On 10/3/2014 9:40 AM, John Yeung wrote:
... But again, that's a back-end-oriented view.
While you may not have increased the degree to which the back end is
shaped by the front, the fact that the front end is now relying on
your SP means that the front end is now molded a little more tightly
to your specific back end and is a little less portable to other back
ends.

...

John Y.


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