I'm telling you how corporations with extremely large codebases and a SOA do things. The problem that you described has been solved as I describe. SOA is bene

I'm telling you how corporations with extremely large codebases and a SOA do things. The problem that you described has been solved as I describe. SOA is beneficial over monolithic development for many other reasons unrelated to versioning. It just happens to enable saner versioning as one of it's benefits.