Domicel Q & A

Sounds like EJB

Q:

Sounds like EJBs to me, though open to the public, rather than a single distributed application.

A:

Getting it to work with any number of applications, from any number of sources, with no central authority keeping order, is the trick. It's why the Internet worked, and Minitel didn't.

In other words, Domicel, like the Internet, passes the nuclear war test: those applications that survive will still be able to interact with each other.

The importance of this (on a day-to-day basis, at least) turns out to be not that old applications can survive the destruction of part of the network, but that new applications can be added to the network at will, without passing through a gatekeeper - which would inevitably be a technical and bureaucratic bottleneck.