> CORBA (and SOAP) had type safety, something which is missing from "modern" systems. You had the illusion of type safety. In practice, a robust distributed sy

> CORBA (and SOAP) had type safety, something which is missing from "modern" systems. You had the illusion of type safety. In practice, a robust distributed system needs to check all messages at each node -- ie, check types at runtime. Any distributed system is, in fact, a dynamically typed system, no matter what the headline says.