This opens a new category of distributed application building. Component Dependencies. Gone are the days of re-implementing the same logic in multiple programming languages.

Yet such distributed systems have their own problems. Depending on the application, you may need to solve complex issues of managing state in an unpredictable, failure-prone environment — one ...

The WWL has been designed using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). McConnell says this should make it possible to integrate the client software into other computer applications.