Re: Visibility (was Re: Introducing the Service Oriented Architec tural style, and it's constraints and properties.

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:51:52PM -0800, David Orchard wrote:
> Mike, I agree with you.  I believe that the statement should read "can be
> less simple to configure and degrade network and perceived performance".
> This focuses the issue on simplicity and performance impacts of visibility.
> As an example of the XPath usage, instead of cache "GET on URI X", it's
> cache on "XYZ on URI X with XPath Foo=true".  Obviously this won't work if
> the message is encrypted.  I think the trade-off is clear.  Caching of just
> a URI is simpler than with XPath, but certainly not insurmountable.

Fair enough.  But do you agree with Mike that visibility is *improved*
by the SOA style, or not?  You previously claimed it was reduced.

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