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-<!-- $Id: book.xml,v 1.54 2007-01-18 12:39:41 marc Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: book.xml,v 1.56 2007-02-17 12:28:11 adam Exp $ -->

 <book id="metaproxy">
  <bookinfo>
   <title>Metaproxy - User's Guide and Reference</title>
 <book id="metaproxy">
  <bookinfo>
   <title>Metaproxy - User's Guide and Reference</title>

@@ -502,6 +502,152 @@
   </section>
  </chapter>
  
   </section>
  </chapter>
  

+<chapter id="yazproxy-comparison">
+ <title>YAZ Proxy Comparison</title>
+ <para>
+  The table below lists facilities either supported by either
+   <ulink url="&url.yazproxy;">YAZ Proxy</ulink> or Metaproxy.
+ </para>
+<table id="yazproxy-comparison-table">
+ <title>Metaproxy / YAZ Proxy comparison</title>
+ <tgroup cols="3">
+  <thead>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Facility</entry>
+    <entry>Metaproxy</entry>
+    <entry>YAZ Proxy</entry>
+   </row>
+  </thead>
+  <tbody>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Z39.50 server</entry>
+    <entry>Using filter <literal>frontend_net</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>SRU server</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>sru_z3950</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Z39.50 client</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>z3950_client</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>SRU client</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Connection reuse</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>session_shared</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Connection share</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>session_shared</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Result set reuse</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>session_shared</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Within one Z39.50 session / HTTP keep-alive</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Record cache</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported for last result set within one Z39.50/HTTP-keep alive session</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Z39.50 Virtual database, i.e. select any Z39.50 target for database</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>virt_db</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>SRU Virtual database, i.e. select any Z39.50 target for path</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>virt_db</literal>, 
+     <literal>sru_z3950</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Multi target search</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with filter <literal>multi</literal> (round-robin)</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Retrieval and search limits</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Bandwidth limits</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Connect limits</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Retrieval sanity check and conversions</entry>
+    <entry>Supported using filter <literal>record_transform</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Query check</entry>
+    <entry>
+     Supported in a limited way using <literal>query_rewrite</literal>
+    </entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Query rewrite</entry>
+    <entry>Supported with <literal>query_rewrite</literal></entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Session invalidate for -1 hits</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+   <row>
+    <entry>Architecture</entry>
+    <entry>Multi-threaded + select for networked modules such as
+      <literal>frontend_net</literal>)</entry>
+    <entry>Single-threaded using select</entry>
+   </row>
+
+   <row>
+    <entry>Extensability</entry>
+    <entry>Most functionality implemented as loadable modules</entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported and experimental</entry>
+   </row>
+
+   <row>
+    <entry><ulink url="&url.usemarcon;">USEMARCON</ulink></entry>
+    <entry>Unsupported</entry>
+    <entry>Supported</entry>
+   </row>
+
+   <row>
+    <entry>Portability</entry>
+    <entry>
+     Requires YAZ, YAZ++ and modern C++ compiler supporting
+     <ulink url="&url.boost;">Boost</ulink>.
+    </entry>
+    <entry>
+     Requires YAZ and YAZ++.
+     STL is not required so pretty much any C++ compiler out there should work.
+    </entry>
+   </row>
+
+  </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+</table>
+</chapter>
+

  <chapter id="architecture">
   <title>The Metaproxy Architecture</title>
   <para>
  <chapter id="architecture">
   <title>The Metaproxy Architecture</title>
   <para>

@@ -582,7 +728,7 @@
       plugins that provide new filters.  The filter API is small and
       conceptually simple, but there are many details to master.  See
       the section below on
       plugins that provide new filters.  The filter API is small and
       conceptually simple, but there are many details to master.  See
       the section below on

-      <link linkend="extensions">extensions</link>.
+      <link linkend="filters">Filters</link>.

      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>