Loosely Coupled

items that have no/low dependency among them are Loosely Coupled

allows for unanticipated Diversity - Generative

good in general for software design, even more important for Distributed Computing and a SOA (Stupid Network)

Wiki Wiki Web:CouplingAndCohesion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_programming)

David Orchard on some techniques.