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On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 20:06 -0400, Michael Champion wrote: > On Apr 5, 2005 7:11 PM, Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...> wrote: > > > *if* your users do far more read operations than create/update/delete > > > operations, and there is a high probability that a document that is > > > retrieved once will be requested again soon.. Very true on the Web. > > > Not true for data enty applications. Nightmarishly difficult in the > > > distributed read/write case. > > > > Don't understand the last bit - nightmarishly difficult how? > > I was thinking of the quote attributed to Phil Karlton > (http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200001/msg00170.html) "There > are only two hard problems in computer science, cache invalidation and > naming things." > > Hmm, REST assumes that both of them have been solved <duck>. Oh brother. So does: relational DBMS The Internet The Web [snip 1000 other examples] and *drum roll please* Wizard Web Services (i.e. the sort you advocate) It's a miracle we get *anything* accomplished, despite hard problems, eh? -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html Writing and Reading XML with XIST - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/16/py-xml.html Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/ Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 State of the art in XML modeling - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think30.html
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