& XSLT On Apr 5, 2005 7:11 PM, Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@[...].com>  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> .

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