Re: tough choices

Serge Rielau apparently said,on my timestamp of 25/06/2004 3:12 AM:

> Yes, webservices also fall into this.
> If two webservices come from the same source and they are correlated in
> some form. Can the correlation be pushed to the source?

I guess not. I mean: in terms of optimisation there are advantages in doing so of course. But you lose the flexibility inherent in externalizing the service definitions. What is needed IMHO is a way of speeding up the interpretation of web services requests and their interpretation by the local source.

Currently, the XML everywhere idea works. But is not very efficient. I guess a layer that deals with the requests should also be intelligent enough to pass them along to the local source in a format that needs no interpretation. "pre-parsed", if you excuse the terminology.

Then it can be scaled: need faster interpretation? Add more local handlers. That sort of thing. Fascinating stuff, really.

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