In tightly coupled organizations, supervisors know exactly what all their employees are doing and management can coordinate all the activities of different departments according to a central strategy.

One project I worked on a few years back required every interaction with the server to first go through a servlet, a validation interface which then hit a required Business Delegate class, a Session ...

A common belief is that software engineers should design services to be 'loosely coupled'. That is, they should verify that the service can speak the 'least common denominator' and do it in a manner ...