This divergence is known as an exception. For example, a program tries to open a file to read its contents, but the file doesn’t exist; that’s an exception.

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In this InfoQ article, Boris Lublinsky highlights the problems with exception handling in SOA, and suggests applying SOA principles to exception handling as a solution.