[geeks] Upper Memory Limit - Java

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jan 31, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> My guess - every night they send cumulative monthly or quarterly EDI  
> transactions (invoices/etc) that include every invoice/order for the  
> month/quarter - luckilly, the software just purges the duplicate  
> invoices/orders, so nothing is ever lost.

Why would they pollute EDI with XML?

> I have seen such "cleverness" in the clinical drug trials space,  
> IIRC, Oracle CLinical could be set to accept and reject duplicate  
> transactions, and non-technical project managers would think that  
> was a great way to ensure nothing ever got lost between our servers  
> and the customers, except, for some reason, the transfers got a bit  
> slow towards the end of the month...

Ditto, I've seen that too.

Very frustrating.


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