Yes, there has been a lot of OO bashing, but I do think it has to be taken in context which many bloggers exclude (I hope I’m not guilty of that . . .).

Our software is a step in the direction of per-record servers; with the servers exec’ed on distributed machines.

Cheers!

I have been reading a lot of these OO-bashing articles lately.

The whole point of SOA is to decompose complexity. OO got a bad rap because its hard to model entire systems into gigantic objects that are the be all and end all.

COM moved us in the right direction with “component” architecture, but the difficulty of implementation interface in the VC++ model limited it.

Now there is web services — and people are just getting started on building simplistic services — but we want to leave the door open for developing more and more complicated objects.

I don’t think that it’s the end. To me, the next step in evolution are going from objects hosted within a centralized server, to a “grid” as you say, that hosts independent objects that are their own servers.

Also, these objects will start to take on the roles that databases have played — each record in a database being its own independent object/server component.

Yes OOP-G is a great concept!