In this interview with Artima, Appistry's Kevin Haar describes the difference between explicit and implicit state in an enterprise application, and how implicit state plays a role in providing scalability and fault-tolerance:
http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/javaone_2007_kevin_haar.htmlWhat do you think of Haar's distiction between these two states, and about the notion of an enterprise fabric providing automatic scalability and fault-tolerance with the use of implicit state?