Exactly. Everything old is new again. There are significant costs for real world apps to what the OP is suggesting, and you can't abstract them away in a fram

Exactly. Everything old is new again. There are significant costs for real world apps to what the OP is suggesting, and you can't abstract them away in a framework or library, as much as you may wish it to be the case. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...