The static interface should be used in applications that have detailed expectations about the contents of the provider database. The static interface cannot be used in applications that need to connect to providers with databases of unknown contents.

The main difference between the dynamic and the static interface is that the former will retrieve all elements from the provider and replicate them in the local database while the latter will only retrieve and replicate the elements that the client code is interested in. Apart from that the static interface offers a superset of the functionality of the dynamic one.

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