RE: [ubl-dev] UBL payload and client-server integration tools

[david.lyon@preisshare.net]

Quoting Fulton Wilcox <fulton.wilcox@coltsnecksolutions.com>:

> One further point with respect to "light" is that it is extremely difficult
> to "buy" latency reduction. Internet 2.0 "mashups" (front end, often client
> side applications that depend in invoking multiple applications, services
> and databases) have very constrained response time budgets, so they must be
> built for speed. Indeed, many client-server applications of the 1990's
> (which themselves often were "mashups") often had sluggish performance
> because they were built for "richness" rather than speed.

That was then, this is now. Computers are a lot faster.

Everything has changed since those days.

Latency is not a real problem now. Stuff like XMPP protocols deliver  
instance presence anywhere around the globe. Along with any XML payload.

Speed is, like Einstein said, relative.

Regards

David