- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 19:47:04 -0400
- To: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: www-ws@w3.org
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:11:46PM -0700, David Orchard wrote: > It's the old > engineering answer, "it depends". Of course it is, David. You say that (repeatedly!) like I'm unaware of it. That is simply not the case. Since we're quoting REST, let me point this out; "[statelessness] induces the properties of visibility, reliability, and scalability. [...] Scalability is improved because not having to store state between requests allows the server component to quickly free resources, and further simplifies implementation because the server doesn't have to manage resource usage across requests." -- http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_3 which directly refutes your claim here; "Stateful vs stateless is really a question of trade-offs of desired properties that the service provider makes, and scale is not one of them." -- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws/2004Oct/0038.html Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca
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