Re: Code generation or forms?

I wonder if some use cases for the description language aren't in order?

Mark.

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:31:01PM +0200, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> 
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