Thumbrule for Start/End Routines Usage

Friends,
Is there any thumb rule to decide when to use start or end routine in BW 7 in transformations ? Can anybody provide a scenario for demonstration .. from performing simple lookups on different DSOs to get descriptions vs any other specific scenarios.. Is there any scenario in which only start or only end routine can be performed.. ?
Any thoughts would be great..?
thanks,
Sunil

Start routine is totally concerned with source data , where you need to write logic for source_package.
Start routine will execute before transformation execution.
Executes packageby package.
loop at source_package into source-feilds.
End routine works on target structure and we have lo write logic on result_package.
Genarally dso lookups are concerned with end routines.
loop at result_package into result-feilds.
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index?rid=/library/uuid/609eea32-455e-2c10-c08a-c23adf8c934e
http://forums.sdn.sap.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1963087
Regards,
rvc

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