- From: Jan Algermissen <jalgermissen@topicmapping.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:31:01 +0200
- To: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>
- Cc: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov@innoq.com>, public-web-http-desc@w3.org
On Jun 4, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Marc Hadley wrote: >> > The code I'd typically generate would just wrap an existing HTTP > library and provide some application-specific value add on top of > the existing library. Marc, can you be more specific (with an example)? The above sounds like adding application specific semantics to the interface (that way breaking its uniformity). Or am I missing something here? Jan > I don't really forsee much need to generate the entire HTTP stack > for each web app, that's what libraries are for. > > Marc. > > >> That's not to say I'm against supporting code generation entirely, >> only >> that I think each proposed feature will need to be examined >> closely from >> this POV. >> >> If I had my way though, we'd be starting out from the assumption that >> all information in the language is for runtime consumption. In >> fact, I >> wonder why that isn't the default position of this group, since >> the Web >> currently works just fine in this manner, and I know from experience >> that you don't need a description language(*) to develop very large >> (international scale) machine-to-machine solutions. >> >> (*) you do need a forms language though >> >> Mark. >> -- >> Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http:// >> www.markbaker.ca >> Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com >> >> >> > > --- > Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com> > Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ ____________________ Jan Algermissen, Consultant & Programmer http://jalgermissen.com Tugboat Consulting, 'Applying Web technology to enterprise IT' http://www.tugboat.de
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