- From: Babich, Alan <ABabich@filenet.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:59:12 -0700
- To: "'B. Shadgar'" <shadgar@cs.bris.ac.uk>, "Pill, Juergen" <Juergen.Pill@softwareag.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
One thing you do NOT want under any circumstances are begin-transaction, end-transaction, and abort-transaction methods. That approach simply does not scale beyond a single user, and is a performance disaster. You absolutely need to stick to single method calls that can Perform Multiple operations on the server in a single Transaction. Batching up operations is a valid approach. Transactions aren't that easy to deal with. That becomes Even more true when multiple servers are involved. Someday, WebDAV might get that far. Transactions aren't new. They're decades old. The effort would Profit from the decades of thought that has gone before. For example, see the DMA standard for one approach. (But remember: DMA specifies an API, not a protocol, and WebDAV is a protocol.) Dr. Alan F. Babich
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