On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Nassib Nassar wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:15:52AM -0800, Greg Newby wrote:
> > I think that we'll need to think about scalability of GridIR,
> > particularly with regards to network traffic and latency.
> One related point which we touched on today was that Z39.50 is
> stateful (or maybe more accurately, as Ray pointed out,
> connection-oriented but not really very actively stateful), but SRW is
> definitely not stateful. Now, since GridIR will be stateful anyway, I
I think that the point was more that SRW is not connection oriented, but
can be stateful. For example resultsets definitely maintain state, but
that's the only thing currently defined which persists between
connections.
Rob
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