On 1 Jan 2008, at 15:09, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 6:20 PM, Patrick May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When an online gaming company experiences quadratic growth
>> in their customer base, routing all that realtime data through a
>> RESTful interface just won't work.
>
> Ok, not to sound like a RESTafarian here (er, don't look at my .sig :)
> but since REST deals extremly well with scalability and routing, are
> you referring here to the size of HTTP headers? The REST *interface*
> itself does not put limits to traffic going through it, so you must be
> talking about something we don't know. :)
In this particular case we had to minimize the number of network hops
in the chain and provide shared state for stateless services. A
JavaSpace mediated approach with Jini services worked beautifully.
Regards,
Patrick
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