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From: "Jeroen T. Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
> > btw: There could be also other reasons for the client to loose the
> > connection (i.e. client process crashes).
>
> In that case the client would lose all its state as well, so not really
> a problem that can be handled client-side.
Well, my client (actually it is a middleware layer which routes transactions
to a set of replicas) keeps its own log, because it must be able to handle
arbitary failures. So it never looses its state.
- Christian