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At 22:37 17-09-2003 +0100, Matthew J. Dovey wrote: >(Of course at this point you might start thinking about asynchronous >responses to requests, but asynchronous SOAP services are a whole new >area, that I'd suggest leaving for at least SRW 1.2 whilst the standards >settle...) Yes. From the Metasearch *provider's* perspective, the lack of asynchronous operations is the major drawback of the bundling/serializing approach... when you *can* operate in parallel, it's hard to justify moving to a synchronous approach just to please an information vendor. That's why the standards issue is only a component of a greater relationship that involves trust and mutual commitments. --Sebastian -- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data <http://www.indexdata.dk/> Ph: +45 3341 0100, Fax: +45 3341 0101