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All of these concerns and recommendations are exactly what make my stomach curl when I think of webservices, e.g.,

Design the interface as a dictionary, though not as an object based wrapper around dictionaries (ie prefer a Map over a Bean). I've seen Python and Lisp code that does this well as they have good support for meta-class hacking; and it's sometimes called data-driven programming in the Lisp world.

Ahhhh! To me -- a type-safety, contract-based coding, OO nut -- webservices are a massive step backwards into the procedural flaming swamp-world I despise.