I once "inherited" a project where I counted more than thirty levels between the web pages and the send/receive on a queue to the system that actually did the w

I once "inherited" a project where I counted more than thirty levels between the web pages and the send/receive on a queue to the system that actually did the work. Funnily enough they had a huge team (and over 30 thousand classes) and a lot of time (over two years) but they couldn't finish it. Edit: Should have said it was J2EE rather than .Net