Re: Service description value for hypermedia?

On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:58 PM, David Orchard wrote:

> I don't know if it's a bad example... It shows a protocol and format
> that relate together, and the possibility for describing the
> relationship in machine processable form instead of just human  
> readable
> text.
>
Its not a bad example in terms of the capabilities it embodies, just  
it terms of whether it requires a description language - at least for  
code generation purposes since folks will write custom libraries to  
support it anyway.

Marc.

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>> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Marc Hadley
>> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:57 AM
>> To: Mark Baker
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>> Subject: Re: Service description value for hypermedia?
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>> On Jun 16, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Mark Baker wrote:
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>>>
>>> But the code that a human would write to support Atom as a library
>>> (e.g. http://www.howdev.com/technologies/), would already provide an
>>> API analogous to the one you describe there.
>>>
>>>
>> Indeed, Atom is a bad example since its likely that folks will want
>> to write custom libraries for most programming languages to support
>> the format and protocol. Is that the case for all web applications
>> though...
>>
>> Marc.
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>> Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
>> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.
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Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com>
Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems.