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> given the state of SOA technologies (use of web services as models)
> why in the world would we revert to a JDBC based solution? Doesn't
> that bind us to a potentially outmoded technology or am I arguing
> application architecture over implementation?
>
At some point you need to actually store your data, even if the store
operations goes through a web services interface. A JDBC based space is
something good to have IMO, and the best thing, it won't bind you to an
outmoded technology, because you can choose to use other
implementations at runtime.