Re: Front-end Driven Applications

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This discussion is interesting and is broadening my understanding, which 
I do appreciate.

However I do not understand how a front-end can be expected to ignore 
the capabilities and requirements of the back-end?  I am missing a piece 
of that puzzle.  If the front-end displays today's temperature in London 
then connecting it to a back-end of shipping dates is not going to 
work.   To my thinking, that front-end has to establish that it desires 
to know the temperature in London and the back-end has to furnish that 
information for the process to be useful.

My own guess would be that for success, the back-end has to establish 
the rules of the exchange, or the front-end must own and dictate  the 
back-end?

On 10/3/2014 9:40 AM, John Yeung wrote:
> ...  But again, that's a back-end-oriented view.
> While you may not have increased the degree to which the back end is
> shaped by the front, the fact that the front end is now relying on
> your SP means that the front end is now molded a little more tightly
> to your specific back end and is a little less portable to other back
> ends.
>
> ...
>
> John Y.